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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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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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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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
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My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
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I loved 'Jaws.' I think that is not really a horror film, but it made me afraid of the ocean for a very long time.
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The CD is now the wax album and so it is a collector's item for people who collect music and love to look at the liner notes and feel paper. I don't know what would turn them on about having to go through that terrible exercise of trying to open the packaging - it's unbelievable when you're trying to open a CD, right? You need a box cutter .
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Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
