Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
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I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.
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It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
