Gretchen Rubin Quotes

We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will enjoy your company.

Gretchen Rubin

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Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

Joan Collins

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We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

Jerry Bridges

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I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

Jennifer Aniston

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I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

John Liu

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I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

Michael Hastings

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Being a rock n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

Steven Van Zandt

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I wanted to show that pop music can be about something else other than the big love songs.

Sigrid

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I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught.

Johnny Flynn

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I enjoy being out; I like being around people, but at a certain point in time, I kind of run out of charming, and I'm ready to go home, and I'm very comfortable alone.

Doug Ducey

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In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try different relationships. I've had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am.

Cobie Smulders

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When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.

Bootsy Collins

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I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime.

William S. Hart

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