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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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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Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.
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In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
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There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.
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I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.
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I think the important thing is that I've never tried to be someone I'm not. People can read right through that.
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When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. 'The Social Network' painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook's first year.
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Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.
