Esther Williams Quotes
I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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I have a lot of fears that normal people have.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
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Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
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My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.
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Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.
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The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
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I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
