Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.
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There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
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I always give myself a three-month period where I would just hibernate and wouldn't even think about the baby weight. I would just be with my baby in my own little world. And then, once I started getting more energy and wasn't so tired, then I would hit the gym.
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The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.
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They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
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I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person.
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But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.
