Eleanor Catton Quotes

Sometimes I'll read something on Twitter, and I'll just be in the darkest of moods for the rest of the day or the rest of the week sometimes.

Eleanor Catton

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DayRestWeekSometimesDarkest

We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.

Andy Dunn

ChooseEntrepreneurBecomeUsJust

What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

Ann McLane Kuster

OpportunityTodayTomorrowBelieve

The cloud scalability is just amazing. So if you are, as an example, an NGO, a social enterprise, if you really want to scale the world, the cloud is just amazing.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

AmazingWorldCloudYouWantSocial

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

Sonia Sotomayor

PerseveranceOptimismBlessedFace

I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

Ryan Adams

WomenLiveTimeMenPeopleWorld

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.

Michael Specter

MotherTimeChildCloudMoreBirth

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.

Christian Louboutin

WorkAgeCrazyFashionDesignNever

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

Armand Assante

GangsterBecomeItalianFormThing

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

Shaquille O'Neal

MoneyPeopleBelieveYouBadNow

I always liked 'The Outer Limits' as a kid. More than 'The Twilight Zone.'

Scott Derrickson

LimitsMoreKidAlwaysTwilight

It sounds outright bland, but people here in Indiana want conscientious public servants who have deep convictions but are prepared to work across the aisle when possible.

Todd Young

WorkPeopleDeepWantPossibleHere

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

Tink

AloneMyselfDoingBackGoFollow

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