Gail Sheehy Quotes
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
Quotes to Explore
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling. A lot of hip-hop artists sing about stuff that's more important, but they seldom get heard. The ones who get heard are the ones saying, 'Think about yourself. Make your money. It's all you. Everybody have a good time and party.'
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When I set out to make 'Bourne Identity,' my main goal for the franchise was to create something where it feels like you're in the action. You're not just passively watching it from far away. That's something that I have constantly aspired to do - even in 'Swingers,' to feel like you're Jon Favreau; you're not just watching him.
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Katy Perry is the sexiest woman I've ever kissed. It was amazing and very purple - she had purple lipstick on. I don't think there will ever be anything cooler than kissing her until I marry her maybe!
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.
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Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
