Jesmyn Ward Quotes

We're all about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, et cetera - I think that's a harmful mythology, that the choices that we make and the things that we do in our lives are not connected to anything else. So I'd like to help to debunk that.

Jesmyn Ward

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ChoicesThinkHelpConnectedUp

All of WhatsApp's growth has come from happy customers encouraging their friends to try the service.

Jim Goetz

GrowthServiceHappyFriendsTry

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

John Cho

LifeSonCultureParentsThought

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Robert Kiyosaki

IdeasPrettyBecauseIdeaDozen

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

Matt Taibbi

FuturePeopleLanguagePoliticalOwn

I have worked extraordinarily hard for decades to ensure the success of our family business for all of the Middleton family.

John S. Middleton

FamilySuccessBusinessHardOur

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

Stephen Kinzer

PowerHistoryMoreOwnModernThan

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.

Roy Lichtenstein

PaintingSeriouslyBedroomPaintGet

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

Rudy Rucker

BeginningAdviceYouDoneWriteOut

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Diogenes

NatureSunTooShinesPolluted

I came from a supportive home with a mommy and a daddy, and they had everything I wanted.

Desiigner

HomeEverythingDaddySupportiveHad

Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible.

Claudia Schiffer

BusinessI AmMistakePerfectWho

I used to draw and do a lot of calligraphy and typography. I'm a big sketcher, too.

Brian Tyree Henry

BigUsedLotTooDraw

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