Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

Jim Gaffigan

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Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'

Jeffrey R. Immelt

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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

John Ruskin

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Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.

John Perry Barlow

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Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want to work here.'

Srikumar Rao

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My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.

Jason Isbell

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I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

Jason Robert Brown

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Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

Javier Bardem

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One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

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Mostly what you remember and enjoy are the scenes you played with people. And quite often, they're the combative scenes!

Diana Rigg

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Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.

Douglas Coupland

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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

Doreen Cronin

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