Donna Tartt Quotes

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Donna Tartt

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I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.

Trinny Woodall

MotherTimeTogetherBalanceChild

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

Martin Seligman

HappinessGreatJoyPeopleExercise

I've never been in the top three of Sports Personality. And I won't be in the top three again. You have just got to accept what it is.

Mo Farah

SportsPersonalityYouThreeAccept

Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.

Julia Hartz

SuccessLeaderTeamBuildingStrong

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

Jonathan Franzen

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Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.

Chiang Kai-shek

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I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me.

Cory Booker

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We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.

Anthony Lewis

MistakesNowPlansSophisticatedAid

We could repeal Dodd-Frank. I think that would be a big help.

Phil Gingrey

ThinkHelpBigWouldI ThinkCould

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

Timothy Morton

AestheticConsciousnessArguingUs

DJ Khaled most definitely knows how to rock a party.

Rick Ross

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'ABCD...' was a dance movie, but it had an emotional story, and now 'ABCD 2' is a very emotional film, too.

Remo D'Souza

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