Emily Weiss Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
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I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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I'm a perfectionist.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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Robbery is common.
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For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I-survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II-a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.
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Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
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In a typical day, I would wake up about 8 A.M., pile all my stuff into my mom's minivan - my guitar, my amp, CDs to sell, a table and a rug - drive it down to the street, and unload it all. I'd wait until about 12, then play for two hours. You could only play in two-hour intervals, so then I would move it all somewhere else.
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He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
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Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.
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Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
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Instagram has a faster chance of reaching me than CNN, and if I really want to know what's going on, I refresh my Twitter feed.
