Emil Ferris Quotes
My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.
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I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I admire British literature for its insistence on dealing with social class. It may have been an influence.
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Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.
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My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.
