Elizabeth Joan Smith Quotes
There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.
Elizabeth Joan Smith
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
Uma Thurman
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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
Yuvraj Singh
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
Earl Weaver
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I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.
Nathan Outteridge
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Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
Randi Weingarten
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
Kate Hudson
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I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.
Fred F. Fielding
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Ebola has killed almost 12,000 people and at least 500 health workers. So it affected the entire population. And as you know, the World Health Organization was accused of not having declared an epidemic soon enough. And that's when we saw Ebola rampaging through Sierra Leone, Liberia and, to a lesser extent, Guinea.
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
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In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.
Jason Statham
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I believe as long as we allow conditions to exist that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-class citizens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
David Deutsch
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There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.
Elizabeth Joan Smith
