Elizabeth Vargas Quotes
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
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I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
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The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
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Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
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Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.
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One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.
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I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.
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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
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It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.
