Elsa Peretti Quotes
I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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Love is the one wild card.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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But you can't kill a demon because they're evil spirits, like a ghost.
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Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.
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Unfortunately, I think YouTube is going down the route of rewarding the select few around content creation, be it with partnerships or with ways of funding original content.
Chad Hurley -
I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
