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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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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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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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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I have a really hard time finding good denim.
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I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.
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It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.
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My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.
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When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
