Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) Quotes
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
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History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
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A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: 'How could one so beautiful be so base?'
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When Clint Eastwood walks into a room, you may not know his name. But you know who he is.
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Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
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Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.
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I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.
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When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.
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You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.
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As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.
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I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.
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Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.
