Paula Abdul Quotes
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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I grew up in New York.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face – it gives me a natural lift.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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I got tired of depending on other people, and I had this strong desire to make music of my own. I decided to start writing my own tunes and just see what could happen.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.
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Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
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Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
