Barbara Corcoran Quotes
Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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I love nature.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.
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For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.
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I always wanted to be a hairdresser.
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My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.
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Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
