Elayne Boosler Quotes
There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
Tamala Jones
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
Adam D'Angelo
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
Patrick deWitt
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
W. H. Auden
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
Barbara Mikulski
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
Walt Mossberg
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
Gautam Adani
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
Gary Numan
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Karl Shapiro
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
J. B. Pritzker
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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If you can relate to what another person is going through while giving their experience room to be its own discrete thing, you're probably a crackerjack emergency contact.
Mary H.K. Choi
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I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.
Don McLean
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I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.
Claire Tomalin
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The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Charles Handy
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There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
Elayne Boosler