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Judith Martin Quotes

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: September 13, 1938

Topics

Work Freedom Rules Without Etiquette

The only thing I know is I ain't changing my brand. I know what I believe. I'm confident in what I know. And I'm gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don't like it, I understand.

Believe Brand Confident Know Say

For an international business such as ours, you can't localise without a local. That was a hard lesson for us. We had to be closer, physically present, which is when we put teams on the ground.

Business Present You Lesson Hard Us

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

Dangerous More Nuclear Weapons Far

It's funny, I used to do a character that was just a baby - just an adult baby. I would get up onstage and complain about adult stuff, but as a baby. I was in a diaper, and I would require hugs from the audience and reassurance and stuff.

John Gemberling

Funny Character Baby Complain Diaper

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

John Lothrop Motley

Culture Lie Long Soil Empires Still

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Politics Stand Fall Nothing Anything

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

Music Name Person Hip-Hop Like Even

When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'

Myself Finance Engineering Wall Said

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

Friend Live Car Today Motto Best

To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Teacher Me Homework Hands Know Say

A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only some people are racist and those people are bad - to a structural understanding.

Work Racism People Moving Bad White

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Change Water Treat Wine Meet Like

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