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It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative. ↗

— John Zorn

#breaks #cooperative #even #every #grand

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#best #consciousness #doing #except #look

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#borrowed #i #ideas #jesus #like

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless. ↗

— Robert Caro

#did #endures #feel #gee #i

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby. ↗

— John le Carre

#book #completing #having #having a baby #like

What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last. ↗

— Robert Caro

#good #last #rushing #these #want

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that. ↗

— Robert Caro

#book #had #i #learn #learning

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage. ↗

— Robert Caro

#ballet #beautiful #beautiful thing #concentrating #during

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. ↗

— Ovid

#always #cast #everything #expect #fish

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance. ↗

— Sid Vicious

#appearance #band #bear #because #broke