"If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me."

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Source : Said to the conductor Fritz Hart. Quoted in John Thompson On Lips of LivingMen (1962).

Nellie Melba

#Women Quotes #Australia Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.”
“I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.”
“Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.”
“People change, mature, and develop their values, attitudes, and preferences as a function of age. It is actually a strategy deployed by many organizations. The idea is that once Millennials grow up -get a mortgage, family- they will start acting like us and sharing our values. Personally, I would not make that bet. Even if it were to happen, Millennials are putting off seven or more years what other generations have done. Waiting for Millennials to "grow up" is risky when it comes to knowledge transfer, talent development, and competitive advantage.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (2007). “The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse”, p.50, Beacon Press
“...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.”

Source : Amy Hill Hearth (2012). “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
“There's nobody quite as mean as people being mean for Jesus.”

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