Sigrid Nunez Quotes

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

Sigrid Nunez

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YouDownWriteHoldBecauseGet

If all you're doing is grinding for the man, it's going to burden you. Once you say, 'Hey, I'm grinding for the man, but I'm putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,' you're working for you.

Jocko Willink

MoneyManStrategyDoingYouBurden

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

Joan Blades

VotingLongTrailTouchScreenFine

My older sister Celia is an actress as well. She's a little bit older than me. So, in my formative years, she was always performing, and we would always go see her do things. And so, that just made me want to be... like her. Maybe if she was an Olympic swimmer, I would probably be an Olympic swimmer by now as well!

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

MeSisterGoNowWantShe

If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.

Max Heindel

KindnessGoodFriendsBornLucky

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.

Stephen Collins

AgeDayTogetherFriendsYouGroup

I made this record in the late '80s called 'Diamonds and Dirt,' and it was a big hit. It had five No. 1's, and it was my commercial peak, really.

Rodney Crowell

DiamondsLateDirtBigPeakMade

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

Mikko Hypponen

HistoryKnowChangesThroughCorrupt

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

Martina Hingis

SpeakYearsSwitzerlandLivedGerman

Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive.

Mike Birbiglia

PositiveDanceGovernmentPeopleDJ

In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous, prone to set traps for humans, and largely indifferent to the unprivileged bulk of humankind, who in any case did not expect their fate in the afterworld to be any better than it had been on earth.

Michael Korda

ControlWorldFateBetterEarthSet

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

Jason Blum

PeopleThinkMoviesRealSeeScared

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

Delta Goodrem

GirlWomanFindWhoKnewHad

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