Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Brit Morin Don't let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don't let it feed a Silicon Valley ego. Oftentimes, the best candidates come from startups or smaller companies. It shows they are open to risk and can keep up with the long hours and occasional harsh demands.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Alex Trebek Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Brigham Young Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Brooke Shields Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Howard Aiken Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
    Howard Aiken
    American physicist and a pioneer in computing (1900 - 1973)
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  • Cass Sunstein Donald Trump may not speak explicitly of 'who we are,' but with his promise to make America great again, he engages in his own kind of identity politics, signaling that the nation has lost its sense of self. That gets to people.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Donald Trump promises to impose, soon after his inauguration, a new requirement on federal agencies: If they want to issue a new regulation, they have to rescind two regulations that are now on the books. The idea of 'one in, two out' has rhetorical appeal, but it's going to be extremely hard to pull off.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
    Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Alanis Morissette Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Butch Trucks Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Joseph Conrad Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Virginia Woolf Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Thomas Gray Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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