Alexander Chee Quotes

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

Alexander Chee

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SucceedCompromiseYouFeelingKind

The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life.

Jennifer Konner

LifeLiveTimeCityWeekCareer

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

Matthew Desmond

LifeFamilyHomeCommunityYourself

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Amy Goodman

MoneyNewOffRatherThanTaken

The style I have in judo is very unique... One big advantage a judo player has is they have very good posture and - like, wrestlers, they show when they're about to do a take-down... which judo players don't, and so I kind of incorporate the boxing style with a judo grip and finishing that way.

Ronda Rousey

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Wherever you go in Michigan, you find that toughness. I don't know if it's the weather or the hard times. It's like, if I can make it out of here, I had to be super tough.

Draymond Green

WeatherToughYouFindI CanKnow

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

David Soul

TimeMomentAngerManagementNever

I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

Wyclef Jean

ExperiencePeopleAmericaWantHaiti

People look at me as spiritual... but I am also very logical, very business-minded. The two come together.

Shari Arison

TogetherSpiritualI AmPeopleMe

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.

Nik Wallenda

LifeHeroInspirationEverything

The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.

Ryan Reynolds

RomanticEndingProblemDoingYou

I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

Kevin Spacey

I AmPeopleMePoliticalPersonal

I think it's always been understood that Canada is not a country that's going to stand up and beat its chest on the world stage, but we can be very helpful in modelling solutions that work.

Justin Trudeau

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