General quotes
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her — especially if that is what she desires.
I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.
I've never had a problem with nudity, but I don't put it out there without a reason.
Tactics are manipulative.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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