Ella Maillart Quotes
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
Quotes to Explore
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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A toned backside truly anchors your physique and can make the difference between jeans fitting and jeans really fitting.
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My parents are nice people, and they also made a point to have dinner as a family every night.
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When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.
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Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe - in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.
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I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
