Jen Selinsky Quotes
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
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I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.
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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
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I have many interests, but working a traditional day job is not one of them!
