Barbara Corcoran Quotes
I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
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Remember that we're all Americans, ... We have a higher interest than our partisan interests -- the national interests.
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The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.
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Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.
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The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
