Ben Rattray Quotes
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Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
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Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.
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If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!
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Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
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I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.
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We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.
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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
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I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
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The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.
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No one deserves brutality because of what they are, their condition of birth, including being born female; and the women in this book are not asking for it- instead they are risking as much as any man risks to live, to love.
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In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence - as not-bound to life.
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The pioneering instrument of reform was the Bank of England. Of all institutions concerned with economics none has for so long enjoyed such prestige. It is, in all respects, to money as St. Peter's is to Faith.
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To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
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Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
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We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.
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I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.
