Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
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It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
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Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.
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When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.
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Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.
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A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.
