Miriam Toews Quotes

When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.

Miriam Toews

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We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

Anna C. Brackett

GoPossessionsOnlyMultiplyCares

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

John Stossel

PeopleAmericaChoiceAboutAllowing

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

Steven Soderbergh

GoodThinkActorStrengthsI Think

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

Simon Cowell

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I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.'

Tony Fernandes

ChangeMyselfHappyThinkDoingNew

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

Michael Winterbottom

HatePeopleMeTellApproachMuch

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Michael Sheen

HeartExperienceThinkParentYou

When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding.

Michael Korda

GoodGreatWarChildLuckGood Luck

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

Louie Gohmert

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I typically work out 20-30 minutes every morning to get the day started.

Logan Green

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Targeted marketing delivers a lower customer acquisition cost and gets you to profitable growth faster. The goal is to quickly identify the costs associated with acquiring your most profitable segment of customers and the incremental value - if any - of going beyond your core.

Jay Samit

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I'd have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how much money my parents had or didn't have, we got completely spoiled rotten. There were always presents under the tree, and we always did special things, like hide elves around the house.

Josie Bissett

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