Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber
Recitation: by Male by Female
I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm's best lessons.
John Bytheway
WorkHomeBestMountainAppreciation
Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.
Matt Taibbi
EvilEquitySingleSuccessfulMany
For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.
Anna Nicole Smith
BestI AmPeopleMeThinkDoing
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
John Ruskin
ArtTrueVisionaryFalseCallUs
I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.
Summer Sanders
RedYellowYouSnackAlwaysUp
Blu-ray and the technologies emerging around it are the premiere format for reproducing what we do as filmmakers. There's more space on the disc, more bit rate.
Michael Mann
SpaceMoreFormatAroundEmerging
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
Mitski
IdentityMePlaceCrisisWhereEver
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Jean Cocteau
LightJobYouthRestLiteratureYou
Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.
Douglas Coupland
PassionMeaningBehindSomeCollect
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
Doris Lessing
WorkPeopleWorldKnowRunAnything
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
Debbie Ford
LifeGoodLookBadWrongRight
I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.
Tyra Banks
MyselfFlawsSometimesOkayHere
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