Dana Gioia Quotes
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
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It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.
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You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.
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Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
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If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
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When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.
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Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be in our lives and what it shouldn't be.
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Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.
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Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.
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Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.
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Health care has to be delivered as an integrated service across the entire continuum of care. This runs from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis and treatment and recovery and homecare.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.
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The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
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Now everybody let me hear you say 'Ray Ray Ray'. Now spend all your money cause they pay pay pay.
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I like comedy as a group sport.
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Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!
