Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.
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My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.
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'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.
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Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
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I walk into the studio and we're all so happy to see each other.
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
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When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.
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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
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For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.
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Someone once said to me,said Marguerite, that our home, our special country, is where we find liberation. I suppose she meant that it is where our souls find it easiest to escape from self, and it seem to me that it is that way with us when what is about us echoes the best that we are.
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The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
