Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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For me, family has always come first.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I want to have a long career.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
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It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
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Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
