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Willa Cather Quotes

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947

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Nature Live Trees Way More Seem

I highly doubt that many people are as organized as me.

People Me Doubt Organized Many

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

Hurt Thought Lose Situation Painful

Hopefully, I'm not stealing scenes from other actors, because then they won't want to work with me.

Work Me Want Stealing Because Then

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

Money Vegas Act Make How

Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who 'do good while doing well.'

Good People Doing Fabulous Everyone

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

Martin Seligman

Positive Future Moment Past Balls

If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.

Work Fear Day Happy Me Feet

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

Dilshad Vadsaria

Parents Roots Credit Know Important

'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind.

Clayton M. Christensen

People Trying Powerful Now Want Way

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

Me Rich Famous Never Dancing Being

People need to work on what self-love is and redefining self-love... it comes from within: who you are and how you carry yourself in this world.

Ashley Nell Tipton

Work Yourself People World Self-Love

I see particular commonalities in the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

Rise Donald Trump See I See Trump

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