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“Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.”
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“I watch what I eat obviously. I'm not a regular gym-goer but I'm conscious of it.”
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“A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...”
Source : Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.164, New Press, The
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“It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.”
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“What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.”
Source : "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.
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“If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.”
Source : Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
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“Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.”
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“The US intelligence community is deeply allergic to the Freedom of Information Act. It is fair to say that the intelligence community does nearly everything in its power to avoid compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.”