Gail Sheehy Quotes

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

Gail Sheehy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1937

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True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

Jim Cooper

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Post-'Daily Show' has been so busy, which I've been surprised about. We're basically independent contractors in a way. So you have one gig, and you're worried about never getting another gig again, or at least I do.

Jessica Williams

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Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

Jill Lepore

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Doing 'Star Trek,' I got to learn about it from the inside out. I got to learn what appealed to them, why sci-fi meant so much to people, why 'Star Trek' meant so much to people.

Robert Picardo

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If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Max Born

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There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

Anita Roddick

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Grand economic theories rarely last more than a few decades. Some, if they are particularly in tune with technological or political events, may make it to half a century. Beyond that, little short of military force can keep them in place.

John Ralston Saul

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A man growing old becomes a child again.

Sophocles

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Going back in time, the best sportsmen ever have been Olympians.

Sonny Bill Williams

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Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Tom Wolfe

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Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

Romain Rolland

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I love New York, but sometimes New York is so mean to you.

Mary H.K. Choi

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