Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
Rachel Kushner
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
Zola Jesus
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
Edie Falco
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
Malcolm Gladwell
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
Victor Garber
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
Ramakrishna
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Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
F. Sionil Jose
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. Mencken
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I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
Naveen Jain
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
Felix Adler
