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John Lennon The Beatles

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• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Very
  • Complicated

• No days off. I'm a workaholic.

  

  Wale
  • Days
  • Workaholic
  • Off

• All beginnings are involuntary.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Men
  • Women
  • High

• I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a phenomenon that would allow me to draw in a lot of different players. I was like, 'Shoot, eviction does that.'

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Different
  • Book
  • Poverty

• I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Work
  • Worry

• Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • Unique

• But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

  

  Lita Ford

• Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Career

• With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

  

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  • People
  • Up

• Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Service

• I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Dying

• One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.

  

  Loni Love
  • Women
  • Color

• I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

  

  Alexis Korner

• When I was running 'round in America, about 30 years old, I didn't want no woman. I knowed I could make enough money to take care of myself, but I didn't want nobody to take care of.

  

  David Edwards
  • Money
  • America
  • Running

• Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

  

  Jerry Gillies

• Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

  

  John Ratzenberger
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

  

  George Foreman
  • People
  • Music
  • Boxing

• Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Karma

• What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Done
  • Why
  • Today

• I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Believe
  • Guy
  • Universe

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• Instant Karma is going to get you.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Karma