Margaret Heffernan Quotes
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
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The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
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Have you seen anything strange about him?Strange? He insists on inhabiting an melting earth - isn't that strange enough without splitting hairs?He seems to be two different people. His personality switches from second to second. I heard something about it a long time ago.....what was it again?
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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The reason there's not a dictatorship in Chile and that there's a democracy in South Africa and Portugal today - and that Haiti has a nascent democracy - is that the world community as a whole felt outraged. This is the reason Milosevic sits in a jail in The Hague. It's because the world has said, 'Enough.'
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Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.
