Emma Willard Quotes
He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labour; makes his pupils work the hardest, and bustle the most. A hundred cents of copper, though they make more clatter and fill more space, have only a tenth of the value of one gold eagle.
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Age for me is just a number.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I do not like violence.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
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My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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I take photos, I used to make films, I journal incessantly, and I really value the documentation of life. Because it's almost like you are making something special by wanting to make it exist in an object - on paper or even just in the computer - making these recordings, making this music.
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He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labour; makes his pupils work the hardest, and bustle the most. A hundred cents of copper, though they make more clatter and fill more space, have only a tenth of the value of one gold eagle.
