Elsa Maxwell Quotes
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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By 2014, the war in Afghanistan will be over.
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A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life because she studies the doctrine and teachings of a perfect teacher, the Master. She is a noble example to all who know her.
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I don't work with people who ask me questions.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
