Making Quotes
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Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains
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It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.
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Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
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My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.
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Making music was always a big interest for me.
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If you're good at the art and you wanna make money, then it's fine. But if you're just doing it because you know you're gonna make money, then I don't know. Some people do it just because they need the money, but it depends on a lot of things.
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I wasn't showboating. I just ran out of gas. I've got to give Ben Watson a lot of credit for not giving up and sticking with it and making that play.
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My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart.
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Love necessitates eagerness To shake January's cold hand Not avert the eye And look what comes To love Before its making.
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The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again.
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The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.
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I mean, I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich. I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.
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The whole idea of making 'James' was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and '80s.
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Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.
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I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
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We are sculptures in the making…
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Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and the possibility of executing innocent people is both inherently wrong and morally reprehensible; (2) My personal experience and crime data show the death penalty does not reduce crime; and (3) The death penalty wastes precious resources that could be best used to fight crime and solve thousands of unsolved homicides languishing in filing cabinets in understaffed police departments across the state.
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As far as we're concerned, we're always Sonic Youth, and we're always making a Sonic Youth record. We just see it so much more as a continuum than a periodic thing. We're just in the studio making the next record, and we don't relate it to anything other than what's going on at the moment.
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Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete.
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The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
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If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
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It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.
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We have been swamped by a tsunami of new technologies, without pausing to consider whether they are good or bad, helpful or hurtful. Are they making us more thoughtful, more articulate, more loving?
