Ellen Gilchrist Quotes
Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything's okay. My child is always on my mind.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!
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I'm confident in the fighter I am, and I have nothing to worry about.
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
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I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.
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So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roarBut bind him to his native mountains more.
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Ginger: Get off it, Mo. If I can't ogle, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
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You cannot force the Now. - But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
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It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.
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You know what. I’m done.” I was tired of living check to check. I knew I could go back and DJ and make a living doing it no problem. I told her if you want to move back, I’m down. We just have to save some money. She got all happy. When I woke up the next morning Incubus’ lawyer called me, and then Mikey (Einziger) called me about 5 minutes later. And then the day after that I tried out. Two days later we were on the road. I think we did almost 300 shows on that tour. It was maybe only two or three months after S.C.I.E.N.C.E. came out.
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We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.
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We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.
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You know, my parents, they raised me to be a fighter.
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Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.
