Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
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I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
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For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.
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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
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The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.
