Belinda Johnson Quotes
It's important for anyone working at a hyper growth company such as Airbnb to embrace learning and be open in order to keep pace with the changing environment.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
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I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
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I fully support President Bush's decision to strike Al Qaeda's terrorist network. Now more than ever, we must stand united as a nation and support our President and our military. It is important to remember that this carefully targeted response is not an attack on a religion, nor a nation, but an attack on terrorism. In Congress, we will continue to work with the White House to do what's needed to bring justice to those who committed the heinous and evil attacks of September 11.
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It's important for anyone working at a hyper growth company such as Airbnb to embrace learning and be open in order to keep pace with the changing environment.
