Jennifer Ehle Quotes
If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I can paint in jail.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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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 try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.
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Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.
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I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.
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Until 2005, I still thought of my surf lifesaving career as fulltime and kayaking as a pastime. I watched the 2004 Athens Olympics and saw people racing that I knew I could beat, and that was probably the turning point: I decided I should either do it properly or stop wasting time kayaking and concentrate fully on Ironman.
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Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
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If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.
