Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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One of the biggest concerns that many voters have with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but particularly with Ms. Clinton, is the sense that she uses government power to advance her personal and political interests. She is the very status quo. Americans want that changed.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
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I don't think I could make a pop album.
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The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
