Margaret Anderson Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner -
Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
Ha-Joon Chang -
My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
K. Flay -
In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
Barry Ritholtz -
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
Walter F. Ulmer -
It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
Vin Scully
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
Gail Porter -
In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
Gabrielle Union -
I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
Natasha Little -
You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
Zadie Smith -
Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Walter Pater -
I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
Malik Jackson -
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
Aaron Swartz -
People want opportunity so they can earn security.
Jack Kemp -
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
Ian Mcewan
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What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.
Laurence D. Fink -
If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
Saul Bellow -
Rail travel for me is the most relaxing, most scenic way to see the country.
John Paul DeJoria -
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
Benjamin Clementine -
Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.
Winifred Holtby -
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
Margaret Anderson