Ann McLane Kuster Quotes
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.
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Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.
