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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When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
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What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
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I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
