Louis Auchincloss Quotes
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
Louis Auchincloss
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I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.
Kate Bush
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On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.
Patrick Lencioni
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The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
Captain Beefheart
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If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
Orison Swett Marden
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Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.
Yann Martel
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I don't rap to get the women, fuck bitches. Give me a fat slut that cooks and does dishes.
Eminem
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It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
Simone de Beauvoir
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P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.
Stephen Fry
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I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.
Dean Smith
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One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism. Versions of truth may be accepted for particular purposes and moments, only to be reversed when circumstances demand other versions; and we often accede to things just to stop being bombarded, and then go ahead and do what we want to do anyway.
Epeli Hau'ofa
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We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
Louis Auchincloss
