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.
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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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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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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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I guess I would definitely feel a bit of a void in what people are getting from music these days. And I think that the problem lies not so much on the listener. People kind of listen to what is presented to them, whether it be on the radio or at a local venue.
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It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.
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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.
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We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.
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Economics is not brain surgery.
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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.
