Karen Thompson Walker Quotes

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

Karen Thompson Walker

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LifeTimeDayJobAmazingWriting

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

Anatoli Boukreev

BusinessI AmImpossibleThinkStop

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

John Collison

WorkBusinessPeopleToolsNowReal

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.

Stephen Kinzer

FreeFightingNowRuleBeenRussian

The first person a customer speaks with has the greatest impact on that customer's impression of Safeway.

Steven Burd

ImpactCustomerPersonFirstSpeaks

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

Rudy Giuliani

CityDesignAmericaThreeCrime

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Mason Cooley

AgeOperaMiddlePassionsMiddle Age

When I was younger, we went to Ibiza a lot because my parents bought an apartment there. I feel like that has always stuck with me.

Jonathan Anderson

ParentsMeFeelAlwaysApartment

Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.

Johnny Giles

GodGreatFootballMeSometimesSay

In Mexico, we call it 'terco': the guy who goes out every day, and every day they tell him no, and the next day he's there, and the next day he's there. That's the kind of people who make movies in Mexico.

Diego Luna

DayPeopleEvery DayMoviesKind

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Desmond Tutu

StandYouOutShouldersCrowdOnly

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

Dougray Scott

PeopleYouSometimesSayWayTry

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

Arrian

MenPastSchoolWarFreeHard

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