Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) Quotes
Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
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I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.
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It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
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New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over.
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It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.
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In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
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I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
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One writes what one can, or has to, write.
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You might try a different fix, a stronger shot, a harder mix. But they wouldn’t get you, baby, and if everyone you know said you ought to let me go, you’d tell ’em they were crazy, so crazy.
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I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.
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Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
