Albert Cossery Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
C. J. Mahaney -
It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
Mackenzie Rosman -
See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
Pardis Sabeti -
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
Magnus Carlsen -
Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
Daniel Ek -
Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
Samantha Mathis -
There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
Sam Mendes -
Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
Madchen Amick -
I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
Natalie Martinez -
After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
Gabriel Medina -
I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
Hailey Gates
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
Walter Mosley -
I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
Octavia Spencer -
Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!
Randy Pausch -
I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.
E. L. Doctorow -
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
Abu Bakr -
I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.
Rachel Weisz
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My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.
Sam Bradford -
One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.
Joan Collins -
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
Joseph Butler -
Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.
Emanuel Lasker -
The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.
P. J. O'Rourke -
So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
Albert Cossery