Mary Schmich Quotes

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Mary Schmich

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I'm not advocating spending less on the elderly, but I am strongly advocating spending more on kids while also putting the country on a sound, long-term fiscal trajectory. To do that, we have to reduce the rate of growth of entitlement-related expenditures and add more revenues.

John Delaney

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In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering.

John Updike

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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Ambrose Bierce

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We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

Alvar Aalto

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Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business.

Tom Rath

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I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.

Ron Silver

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As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.

Mary Jo White

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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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The Christmas tree goes up on December 1. I love it.

Richard E. Grant

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I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

Marilyn Hacker

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I like a happy ending. That's what I do all the time. I like to make people feel happy.

Mort Walker

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