Charlene Weir Quotes
My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.
Charlene Weir
Quotes to Explore
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
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The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.
Rachael Ray
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
Camilla Lackberg
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.
Zach Gilford
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He did not, and could not, understand the meaning of words apart from their context. Every word and action of his was the manifestation of an activity unknown to him, which was his life.
Leo Tolstoy
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The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
Ellen G. White
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The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
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Let us join together across denominations, religions and cultures to make a habit of empathy and reach out to those most in need. To share the blessings we enjoy and to advance the cause of peace in all corners of our world.
Barack Obama
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
Victoria Osteen
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All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.
Edwin M. Stanton
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My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.
Charlene Weir
