There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to … - Charlie Kaufman

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My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

Charlie Kaufman

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

Believe, Care, Ideas, Passionately, People, Starting

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Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

Already, Courage, Encouraging, Failure, Risk, Risked

The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.

Appear, Fall, Needs, Real, Saying, Smart

You are what you love. Not what loves you.

Adaptation, Love, Love You, Loves, What You Love

When I found myself in that situation - that actors are like children, I tried to be successful. And when it worked and I figured out how to communicate that things were good - or at least okay - then I felt pleased.

Children, Communicate, Okay, Situation, Successful

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

Expectations, Human, Life, People, Presented, Thinking

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My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

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Anita Borg

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

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Jay Carney

The president made clear when he was a candidate for this office and when he took this office, that unfortunately prior to his taking office, because of the focus on Iraq, and the U. S. efforts there, that the original war, if you will, in Afghanistan had been neglected, the strategy there was unclear, and that it was not properly resourced.

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Peace Pilgrim

I sleep equally well in a soft bed or on the grass beside the road. If I am given food and shelter, fine. If not, I'm just as happy. Many times I am given shelter by total strangers. When hospitality is not available there are always bus depots, railroad stations and all night truck stops. . . . When no shelter is available to me, I sleep in the fields or by the side of the road with God to guard me.

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Pope Benedict XVI

Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which are based on perennial values, such as hospitality, solidarity, and the sharing of the toil of labor.

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