Eudora Welty Quotes
I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.
Quotes to Explore
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.
