Thomas Mallon Quotes
Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
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Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.
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When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.
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The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.
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I don't sleep with happily married men.
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My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
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I believe it is my job to do everything I can so that everyone in our society feels safe, feels that justice is not an abstract concept but a fact of life for all Americans.
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Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.
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Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.
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Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
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I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
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The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.
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Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.
