Sarah Caldwell Quotes
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
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My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Oderint dum metuant.
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I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.
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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
