Mary Gauthier Quotes

I guess I find it easier to talk when I have a guitar in front of me.

Mary Gauthier

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My reasons for coming to get married in Calcutta are complicated, and it's very hard to put it into a sentence. People ask me why. To me, it just felt like a very natural and exciting decision.

Jhumpa Lahiri

DecisionPeopleMeComplicatedWhy

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

John Abizaid

YouKnowMilitaryWellOperation

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

CultureProtectOutsideNormsGoes

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

Ann Voskamp

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Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.

Steve Nash

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Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

Tracy Chapman

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The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the monthly jobs report. We have a ritual at the Labor Department - at 8 A.M., we gather around a table in my office, and the commissioner of labor statistics briefs me and the department's senior leadership on the numbers.

Tom Perez

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Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Robert Baden-Powell

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The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews.

Matisyahu

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I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.

Mary Berry

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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

ManSufferingWhoHeFears

The best advice for a first time CEO is make sure you have built a strong technical founding team, and then launch!

Michael Seibel

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