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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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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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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Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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Look at the stats. Look at the players.
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I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
