Lynn Good Quotes

I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're going to have very bad days. But It's rare that things are as good as they look, and it's rare that things are as bad as they seem.' So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions.

Lynn Good

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Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

Robert Nozick

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The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.

Michael Easton

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I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

Meryl Streep

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The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Tristan Tzara

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My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

Tom Brokaw

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'Angels' is about being in love.

Romy Madley Croft

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We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

Ruth Reichl

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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I just try to do the best I can for myself and the people around me.

Christian Pulisic

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Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

Bonnie Blair

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I like constructive criticism from smart people.

Prince

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I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

Peggy Johnson

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