Adina Porter Quotes

When you trust, and you open your heart, and you think - well, maybe not heart - when you put down your guard and you let someone in and they betray you, that guard goes up really hard.

Adina Porter

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HeartTrustThinkSomeoneYouDown

After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.

Stephen Kinzer

WarWorldNationalismWindsThrough

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

Steve Martin

TruthSomeoneWhyWayNeverRight

With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.

Steve Rushin

DailySilenceBaseballLibraryLoss

I loved 'Star Wars'. I had the toys.

Russell Tovey

LovedToysStarWarsStar WarsHad

At school, I basically wear one pair of jeans and sneakers for months on end.

Jordana Brewster

SchoolEndSneakersJeansWearPair

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

Alfred Marshall

NameLandRentProducerLeading

When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there.

Pramila Jayapal

BusinessGirlGreatMeWorldSaid

In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.

Marjane Satrapi

GodI AmPeopleProblemsChristian

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

Lily Collins

LookingDoingFameWhyWayNever

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

Kenneth Clark

SuccessGreatWarEarlyStages

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

Howard Stern

WorkDayMeYouBurnNever

What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.

Greg Gutfeld

LieCoolMediaFlexibleBendReason

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