Joshua Ferris Quotes

The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.

Joshua Ferris

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You don't have to be born wealthy and have an aristocratic last name or have connections or all these things. If you have a dream, you can believe in something and work hard and struggle and fight for it and still have a chance to succeed.

Jeremy Scott

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Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

John Knoll

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I've never wanted to be anybody else, and I never thought anybody else could be me more than me.

Michael Beasley

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I await a project where I'd have to deeply invest my emotions in.

Song Hye-kyo

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I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

Stone Gossard

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Keep in mind that diversity does not just mean black. It means all of it - age, weight, gender.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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The Dome is a metaphor that could mean anything - it could be nuclear fallout, terrorists - I've always been fascinated with stories where people's roles are flipped on their heads, be it the Wall Street guy, the techno guy, etc. All of those things are only successful when there are people and money around.

Mike Vogel

MoneyPeopleWallStreetMeanGuy

My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

Michael Phelps

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Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Dennis Prager

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I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.

Doug Davidson

LifeGreatWaitingMeNegativeGo

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

David Simon

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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