Ellen Swallow Richards Quotes
I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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I try to do my best.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.
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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
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Any waste stream in our society can be turned into a revenue stream. It's turning the lemons in our society into lemonade.
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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
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It's great to have a lot of support; people recognizing what you're doing out there and identifying with you in whatever way they see fit is a great fit, I think, and for me it's neat, for people to want to come to the golf course and watch me play golf.
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Ask yourself - Where do I want to be one year from today? Personal growth is a choice.
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If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.
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I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
