Elsa Maxwell Quotes
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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If you have the means, I would highly recommend using supplementations for optimal health.
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I started my whole career on Soundcloud and YouTube and was always looking for recourses to make music.
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When someone calls me a blogger, I think, 'That's one of the things I used to do.' I'm a creative director for my shoe brand; I'm the editor-in-chief of 'The Blonde Salad,' which is a website and not just a blog anymore.
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Rapping was a hobby; when I went to college, there were a ton of dudes rapping. I think that's where I got my rapping chops up.
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A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
