Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.

Gretchen Rubin

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LoveNeedEverythingCunningGet

For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.

Andreja Pejic

TimeMirrorChildhoodLookingLong

'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it was deleted. So I recorded The 'Blue Notebooks' on a little indie label, and my attitude was, 'Well, if nobody is listening, I might as well keep doing what I'm doing'.

Max Richter

AttitudeBlueListeningDoingYear

We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.

John Lewis

CreativePeopleWantNeedOutSome

The fly-by-nights don't want to spend any time with you.

Robert Manning

TimeYouWantAnySpend

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

Robert Klein

FunnyHumorPeopleComedyAliveUs

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

John Quincy Adams

SlaveryColorHumanitySkinMoral

I can't change the past. It made me what I am.

Shonda Rhimes

ChangePastI AmMeMadeAm

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

Rudy Giuliani

GreatNew YorkCityNewOverFour

I like to customize my tights by cutting them myself to create a stirrup or convert the look into a capri.

Mary Helen Bowers

MyselfLookCreateLikeTightsThem

Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself.

Joseph de Maistre

TruthManSpeakWillAlwaysOver

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

ManKingBlindCountry

Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for.

Dean Ornish

LifeLiveDayLongYouLiving

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