Mariah Carey Quotes

I think one of the reasons I pushed myself so hard and worked so hard is because I never felt special.

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• It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
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• Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• What we're doing is talking and that is always better than not talking.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Conversation

• All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

  

  Daniel Bernoulli
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• Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Sex
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  • Invented

• Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Music
  • Home
  • Remember

• Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Technology
  • Eyes
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• When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.

  

  Barack Obama
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• There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• It's wonderful to be involved with such a fantastic campaign.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
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• When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Might

• Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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  • Wanted
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• When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who cannot explain it will not admit that it is inexplicable. This is a strange situation, only partly ascribable to the rather unscientific conviction that evidence will be found in the future. It is due to a psychological quirk in the minds of its advocates.

  

  Norman Macbeth
  • Conviction
  • Adaptation
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• Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

  

  George Saintsbury
  • Right
  • Wrong
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• I think one of the reasons I pushed myself so hard and worked so hard is because I never felt special.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Reasons
  • Worked