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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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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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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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
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It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
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I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes.
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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.
