John Erskine Quotes
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
Quotes to Explore
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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Writers are so important.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.
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Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.
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I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
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It was a tough deal for us for him to get hurt. So what we're going to try to do is make the best decision.
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Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
