Adeline Yen Mah Quotes
But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
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A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
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The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.
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I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.
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An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
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We haven't gotten an indication that it would be worth our while.
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If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
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The examined life is the only life worth living.
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I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.
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I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.
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I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
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My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
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We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming about how to make something change in the world. Sometimes you can pressure people into changing, you can force them, but the powers-that-be have more force than we do. I don't think we're going to win in a contest of force. I think we need to induce a change of heart. The narrative of "us versus them" is ultimately part of the problem. Traditional activism, which is about overcoming the latest bad guy, isn't deep enough. It just brings us another version of the same.
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But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.
