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When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

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• There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Real
  • School
  • Usc

• We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Job
  • Girl

• When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Fulfilled

• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Singing

• As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Artist

• The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Physical training is mental warfare!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Training

• People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Obstacles
  • Experiences

• I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Work
  • Great
  • Friends

• The worst thing was having to go to school on days "Mensch, Pia!" would be on TV in the evening. My classmates made fun of me.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • School
  • Fun
  • TV

• The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Direct

• When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • Children
  • School

• You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Faith

• As a matter of fact, there was a period of time, especially in my first career, when that's the only one who would work out with me: my dogs. As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running.

  

  George Foreman
  • Running
  • Dog
  • Firsts

• My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Firsts
  • Lasts

• If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

  

  James Franco
  • Morning

• We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

  

  David Bezmozgis
  • Better
  • Taught
  • Limit

• When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

  

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