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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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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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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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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It's funny how God will just keep using you, and our motto around our family forever has been, 'Just let Him use you.'
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Meditation has really helped with keeping my center.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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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.
