Emma Willard Quotes
Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?

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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.
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A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . .
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Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?