Charles William Eliot Quotes
When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
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It's not a bad day at work when you just have to take your shirt off for a big franchise movie. There are worse jobs out there!
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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.
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True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
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When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.
