Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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According to the producers of gripping podcast 'Death, Sex & Money', these are the three things we think about a lot but need to talk about more.
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.
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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
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Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.
