Ella Maillart Quotes
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
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For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.
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I'm normally the least busy person I know.
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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
