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STATUS QUOtes — 20240805

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.” — Franklin Pierce Adams

“‘Listen to me,’ my mother replied. ‘You may be the president or whatever of PepsiCo, but when you come home, you are a wife and a mother and a daughter. Nobody can take your place. So you leave that crown in the garage.'” — Indra Nooyi

“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?” — Lily Tomlin

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240424

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“No person is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.” — Seneca

“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.” — Haruki Murakami

“In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.” — Robert M. Pirsig

“If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?” — Lily Tomlin

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200509

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“Make the ordinary come alive…the extraordinary will take care of itself.” — William Martin

“A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can’t therefore argue that the net doesn’t exist. Just ask the fish.” — Jeffrey Kluger

“Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn’t be relied on to guard hen houses.” — Jane Jacobs

“We’re all in this together … alone.” — Lily Tomlin

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20181117

Jeff

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“Vuja de – When you look at something you have seen many times before and all of a sudden you see it with fresh eyes.” — Adam Grant

“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.” — Epictetus

“If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.” — Charles Caleb Colton

“I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.” — Lily Tomlin

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180308

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“By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.” — Buganda proverb

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” — Jack Kerouac

“The magnificent and the ridiculous are so close that they touch.” — Bertrand de Fontenelle

“What goes up must come down… but don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.” — Lily Tomlin

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20161207

Jeff

“The suspense is terrible… I hope it’ll last.” — Gene Wilder

“Wisdom is not what you know but how quickly you adjust when the opposite proves true.” — Robert Brault

“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.” — Lily Tomlin

“You only have to bat 1.000 in two things—flying and heart transplants; everything else, you can go four in five.” — Beano Cook

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160630

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“What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.” — Alain

“Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.” — Chuck Palahniuk

“The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?'” — Jeff Bezos

“I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.” — Lily Tomlin

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160621

Jeff

“A good home must be made, not bought.” — Joyce Maynard

“The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.” — Michelangelo

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” — Patricia Briggs

“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.” — Lily Tomlin

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150415

Jeff

“When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.” — Robert Pinsky

“It’s a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.” — James Baldwin

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” — Sally Kempton

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” — Lily Tomlin