Ella Maillart Quotes
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
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I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.
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It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
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You had better refuse a favor gracefully, than to grant it clumsily. Manner is all, in everything: it is by manner only that you can please, and consequently rise. All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may.
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I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
