Eula Biss Quotes
Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.
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We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about.
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
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'Believe nothing,' Apolline advised. 'This woman wouldn’t know the truth if it fucked her.'
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As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.
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I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, you're still in the romance stage. I'm in the stage where I've been married to it for 60 years, and I don't think I'll ever get a divorce.
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I don't really eat a lot of fast food, ever, but if I had to eat at one fast food restaurant, it'd be In-N-Out.
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When you're in a hole, stop digging.
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O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.
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I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.
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These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.
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He who pardons easily invites offense.
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Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.
