"When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it."
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"There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group."
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"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."
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"Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it."
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"These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?"
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"I want to see the original long-form certificate of Donald Trump's Republican registration."
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"Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise."
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"Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'"
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"I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products."
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"Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each one of us is called to a special place in the Kingdom. If we find that place we will be happy. If we do not find it, we can never be completely happy. For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be."
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"If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you."
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"Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want."
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"Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world."
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"If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing."
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"We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done."
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"I've done an awful lot of trying to make everybody else okay and happy. I have learned, now it would really be ok to wait for someone who wants to be there for me and partner with me and I'm really looking forward to it."
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"You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you."
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"I want to really start focusing on what I want to accomplish and what it is I want to achieve, but not micromanaging this or that and focusing on the little things."
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"There are fast ideas and slow ideas, just as there are fast trains and slow trains. When it comes to money, most people are on the slow train looking out the window watching the fast train pass them by. If you want to become rich quickly, your plan must include fast ideas."
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"I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither."
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