Brenda Ueland Quotes
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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We don't work with anyone.
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It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
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People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
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I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
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Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.
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God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.
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My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.
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You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.
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Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased. If we took doctors seriously as human animals, we might hurt them - and they might hurt us - a lot less.
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
