Janet Evanovich I took all of my rejection letters – there must have been thousands of them in a huge box – and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying. – Janet Evanovich Box Quotes Burned Quotes Crying Quotes Curb Quotes Huge Quotes Letters Quotes Rejection Quotes Thousands Quotes The ‘Barnaby’ books were always intended to be graphic novels. I don’t want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
LearningMichael Burry At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules… I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor. – Michael Burry
Sheila Hancock I got myself into hot water with the press in 2014 by suggesting that the art installation of poppies in the Tower of London moat should be completed by being malevolently mown down by a tank, in the way that the service men and women whom the poppies represented had been. – Sheila Hancock
Gloria Steinem If you’re going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. – Gloria Steinem
Dambisa Moyo We’ve reached a very low-level equilibrium where it’s not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa… It’s not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there’d be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice. – Dambisa Moyo
Ace Frehley I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that’s what I wanted to do with my life. – Ace Frehley
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