Abigail Johnson Quotes
When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
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All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
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When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
