Alia Shawkat Quotes

The millennial generation wants to express every feeling to feel like you're connected to it, and there's something very dark about tragedy that people are drawn to.

Alia Shawkat

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PeopleGenerationFeelYouDark

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

John Boyne

PassionHopeTimeMyselfMemory

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Johannes Tauler

GoodMeditationMoreEvenReligious

In short, Now is Google's attempt at becoming the real time interface to our lives - moving well beyond the siloed confines of 'search' and into the far more ambitious world of 'experience.' As in - every experience one has could well be lit by data delivered through Google Now.

John Battelle

TimeExperienceMovingWorldSearch

It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.

Jeff Miller

FutureDisciplineMoneyHandsPlace

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

Amanda Hocking

GoodPeopleThinkEndBadWant

Unfortunately, as you hire more people, the casual, informal 'do what it takes' culture, which worked so well at less than 40 people, becomes chaotic and less effective.

Steve Blank

CulturePeopleYouMoreCasualHire

There's a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.

Rush Limbaugh

HomePeopleThinkLearnYoungWhy

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

Mira Nair

WorldPoliticalYouSeeActFilm

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

Jay Leno

MedicineIdiotNewJournalOut

The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow... on how elections are won in the 21st century.

Douglas Alexander

TomorrowBusyYesterdayFocusedHow

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

Chris Hardwick

LifeWorkJobMy LifeToo MuchOut

I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy.

Cody Horn

LifeManSmartThinkMy LifeKind

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