"We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been."

-- George Eliot

#Reality Quotes #Might Quotes #Might Have Been Quotes

“When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.”
“When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.”

Source : "Why Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza's 'Life After Beth' Make Out Could Have Been Awkward". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, yahoo.com. August 7, 2014.
“Pictures make a lot of money doesn't determine whether the experience was...”
“People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.”
“When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java project wont be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. And the quality of your hackers probably matters more than the language you choose. Though, frankly, the fact that good hackers prefer Python to Java should tell you something about the relative merits of those languages.”
“You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.”

Source : Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (2006). “"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning”
“If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.”
“'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.”

Source : "MacMaster sings in praise of the fiddle 'In My Hands'" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. November 8, 1999.

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