Rachel Kushner Quotes
I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.Rachel Kushner
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
R. A. Salvatore -
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
Ida Lupino -
The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
Jackie Robinson -
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
Oscar Levant -
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden -
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth -
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
Warren Buffett -
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
You need to train your brain to be positive.
Nargis Fakhri
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Ramakrishna -
Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
Yelena Baturina -
You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven -
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens -
You don't see many Jon Jones's.
Daniel Cormier
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Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
Marianne Williamson -
'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.
Dennis Quaid -
I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.
Jason Ritter -
I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
Mira Nair -
I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
Vesta Williams -
I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.
Rachel Kushner