Charles William Eliot Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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My hunger is always there.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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I didn't intend to go into the seminar business.
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I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.
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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
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My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms - partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn't like being defined by other people.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.