Eliyahu Goldratt Quotes
Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.
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I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.
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My mom and grandma, growing up, one thing they emphasized was that you need to make sure that anything you put on your skin is also digestible by the body. For example, if something isn't safe for me to eat or consume, it's probably not good for your face. So I do a lot of natural remedies.
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.
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In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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We never see any journalism or documentaries on the oceans and what we're doing on this Earth and how it affects the oceans and how important they are. I'm intrigued by it. It's almost an untold story.
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My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
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I'd love to venture out into some international work. I would like to do some work in Sri Lanka as well.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
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Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.
