Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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If the question of the distribution of wealth were solved for all society and all lived in average comfort and without urgent anxiety, the question would still be how many would be at peace with their own souls and have that enduring joy and contentment which alone can make the outward things fair and sweet and rise victorious over change.
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I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.
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When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.
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The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.
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I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill.
