Rachel Shenton Quotes
We value 'stuff' quite highly. Why? Because that 'stuff' apparently matters. Not only that, we use it as a measure of how successful we are, and as a result of that, having more of this 'stuff' often determines how people treat us.
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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When all else fails, complicate matters.
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In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Tone matters more than words.
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I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.
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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.
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If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!
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We value 'stuff' quite highly. Why? Because that 'stuff' apparently matters. Not only that, we use it as a measure of how successful we are, and as a result of that, having more of this 'stuff' often determines how people treat us.
