Ellen Goodman Quotes
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
Quotes to Explore
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I can always go back to education.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
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Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
