Arthur Hailey Quotes
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.
Quotes to Explore
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
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Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found that in recent years Americans are working fewer hours than 50 years ago, but we feel as if we're working more. We have more and more time-saving devices, but sometimes, it seems, less and less time.
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I was a diehard fan of '24' since the beginning. But being on the show, there was stuff I never thought about as a viewer, like, wow, it's going to be a single day for 10 months out of your life - you have to look exactly the same every day.
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I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
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As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.
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I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.
