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However, few marriages, he understood, were lasting successes, so that perhaps after all it didn’t much matter.

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• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Good
  • Goal

• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Like
  • One Thing

• I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Want
  • Faith

• One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Hard
  • Underestimate

• The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Experience
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Children
  • Myself
  • Child

• In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women

• The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Moving
  • Wit
  • Moving On

• I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fame

• I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Think

• It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Time
  • Done
  • Government

• You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • You
  • Something
  • Try

• If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Business
  • New

• In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Generation
  • Grow

• The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Energy
  • Matter
  • Diet

• I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.

  

  Albert Belle
  • Baseball
  • Matter
  • Intense

• I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationship

• My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Teacher
  • Girls

• When anything goes, it's women who lose.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Lose
  • Anything

• However, few marriages, he understood, were lasting successes, so that perhaps after all it didn’t much matter.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
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