Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
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I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.
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A man is so in the way in the house.
