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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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.
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I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I love 'Project Runway.' But the shows where they're just sitting in a house aren't as fun to me!
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When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
