Amity Shlaes Quotes
By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.
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The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
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The trouble is that people are all too ready to jump to conclusions about anybody who they think looks a bit strange. They think you must be mentally subnormal.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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You've got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was definitely a hustler. With six kids in the house, you always got to be hustling. And my mom, she's got sick work ethic.
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By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.
