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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I won't stop there, ... I will continue to pursue getting the best advice possible.
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Be critical of these institutions that we love, whether they be our sports teams or the criminal justice system. Be critical of what the police department is doing about sexual assault. Be critical of why prosecutors are not prosecuting sexual assault.
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My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.
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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.
