Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.
Quotes to Explore
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
Rafael dos Anjos
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
Rachel Zoe
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
Damien Chazelle
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Karen Armstrong
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
Carl Hiaasen
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
Ed Pastor
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
Dabney Coleman
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
Ida B. Wells
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
Hank Azaria
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Yoko Ono
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
Cara Castronuova
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How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.
Lorraine Toussaint
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I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.
Barack Obama
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It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.
Jada Pinkett Smith
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Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox