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If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#attract #businesses #education #improve #kind

We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#attract #efforts #foreign #increasing #investors

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy. ↗

— Jo Brand

#bit #came #down #martian #media

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found. ↗

— William Stafford

#found #getting #going #like #lost

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#abstract #i #i think #intellectual #leader

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#i #painter #rotten #wanted

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly. ↗

— Angie Harmon

#big #buck #child #gangly #had

As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn't let her. She did 'Psycho,' and I believe, if you look at 'Psycho,' there isn't one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#after #anyone #as far as #believe #close

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#contemplation #general #just #monks #our