E. F. Schumacher Quotes
Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
Quotes to Explore
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If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
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Power tends to get confused with repression.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
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I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
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A thriller is supposed to thrill you! So it's the plotting of the movie and the unveiling of the story which is important.
Nastassja Kinski -
Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
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Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.
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We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.
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Scholars have long recognized that Luke himself wrote these speeches—they are not the speeches that these apostles really delivered at one time or another. Luke is writing decades after the events he narrates, and no one at the time was taking notes.
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You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
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The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
