Albert Hadley Quotes
Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
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My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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I use Redken color on my hair and use mild shampoos that don't strip your hair of color. If I need to, I'll use a good colored mousse in between.
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If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!
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Merlin was five years of my life. I enjoyed every year, every day. I had a brilliant time on it. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I wanted to do more.
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As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.
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Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.
