Cathy Horyn Quotes
I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.
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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.
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I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.
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Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.
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But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
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Although globalization and technological change have disrupted traditional work arrangements, both processes have the potential to benefit everyone. The fact that they have not suggests that the wealthy have captured the benefits for themselves.
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In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.
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The future is always a dystopia in movies.
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I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
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If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.
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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
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One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?
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Judas, boredom is such a drag, drag, drag. Writing might be good therapy for me, though.
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I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.
