Barbara Myerhoff Quotes
The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.
Quotes to Explore
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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Some people will always be disappointed.
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
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Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.
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I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.
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I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
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This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.
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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
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The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
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Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.
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Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you.
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Just as there is no action weaker or more unreasonable than to submit one's judgment to another's, where there is no advantage to oneself, so also there is nothing greater or wiser than to place oneself unquestioningly under God's judgment by believing in every word He speaks.
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The only reward in this game is winning. It's no fun to practice; it's no fun to play and lose.
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The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.
