Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
Economy was always 'elegant', and money-spending always 'vulgar and ostentatious'; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied.

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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
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I hit it off the end a little bit and it was a little whippy, ... There's so much tape on (the bat) sometimes you can't really tell if they're broken.
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The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Economy was always 'elegant', and money-spending always 'vulgar and ostentatious'; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied.