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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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 am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.
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Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
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We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have a buffer in one way or another. We have a savings account, or we have credit that we can go to. The underserved don't have that luxury.
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I personally think that people should spend more time and money on their marriages instead of weddings.
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In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
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There's a lot of research and time that goes into my shoots. I spend weeks on them, even for one picture.
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WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.
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If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.
