Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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I am who I am.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
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When I checked into a hospital in Germany, after having been beaten by police in Sichuan, I was told there was bleeding in my brain and I was near fatal collapse. I was rushed into surgery. When I awoke I felt like a normal person again. But I will not feel whole until I and my fellow Chinese can live freely.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
