Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.
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The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.
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I do think we're in a period of time culturally where there is just this extraordinary connection that we have to our pets, and in many ways, they are displacing kids. They're so much simpler than dealing with a kid because of this unconditional love that does not get complicated by adolescence or any other manipulation.
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Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
