#mon

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

#ambition #american #american citizens #among #best

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#children #disrespectful #life #memoir #savages

This book is full of empty love quotes. If you are looking for the meaning of life and love, then this book is for you. You won’t find the answers here, of course, but you’ll be more encouraged than ever to keep on looking. Or maybe you’ll be discouraged. Either way, I’ll have your money, and you’ll have no answers. Sounds like a fair deal to me. 
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— Dora J. Arod

#book #books #buy #deal #discouraged

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human. ↗

— Thomas Jane

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I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality. ↗

— Al Jardine

#harmonies #i #like #richness #surrounded

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#asked #bach #been #cinema #executive

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked. ↗

— Billy Joel

#club #enough #factory #first #food

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first. ↗

— Daymond John

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I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#finish #four #got #had #i

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cultivate #getting #getting money #kindness #life