Alfred P. Sloan Quotes
It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
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We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.
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Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy.
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I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.
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It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
