Margaret O'Brien Quotes
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.
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Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.
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Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.
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Around eight or nine years back, I participated in 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.' The point of coming on the show was that a person coming from music family can also compete with people from all over India.
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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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Idealizing Daddy is grand when you're five; it's crippling when you're twenty-five or thirty-five. For if you still believe in Daddy's miracles, you may not believe that you can make your own dreams come true. Worse, you may not even be able to formulate them without his guidance.
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He never yelled or screamed so I felt very at home and comfortable.
