Quotes with make-believe

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  • Ben Horowitz The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Anita Dunn The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
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  • Carlos Castaneda The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Lee Iacocca The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Ben Kingsley The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
    The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Magicians Nephew (1955), Ch. 10 : The First Jo
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Billy Sunday The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Iain Banks The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
    (2013)
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Buddy Wakefield The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.
    Poetry
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Robert Lynd The truth is, most of us believe in trying to make other people happy, only if they can be happy in ways which we can approve.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Anne Cassidy The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • W. M. Thackeray The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Joel A. Barker The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
    Joel A. Barker
    American businessman
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  • Boy George The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • John Foster Dulles The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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