Mitch Albom Quotes
We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
Quotes to Explore
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
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I'm young but I'm not stupid.
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You can't be like, 'Alright, I'm going to make this viral!' You just put stuff out there, and you hope that people engage and resonate with it.
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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
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Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
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The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.
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I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.
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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.
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We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
