Amity Shlaes Quotes
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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.
Naval Ravikant -
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Oliver Cromwell -
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.
Zach Woods -
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.
Action Bronson -
I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
Washed Out -
You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. Abrams
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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.
Magic Johnson -
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.
Uri Geller -
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray -
Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
Wayne Huizenga -
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.
Xavi -
At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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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.
Candice Swanepoel -
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.
Lady Gaga -
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
Jack Youngblood -
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.
Kate Williams -
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.
Karl Pilkington -
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
Ziad Doueiri -
I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
Kacey Musgraves -
Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.
Eric Cantor -
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.
Amity Shlaes