Candice Millard Quotes
As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.
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I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.' You just kinda, like, stuff it away until - well, some people stuff it away forever.
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I think that clothes and accessories define and describe who we are. I can't see many differences between them; they are indeed a way to introduce ourselves to other people, and they help us transmitting a message to others.
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
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We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
