Dorothy Gilman Quotes
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
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I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay.
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Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
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The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.
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If I leave Philadelphia, it's not because I want to leave. I'm still in love with the place. I want to be here.
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If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
