Beverly Engel Quotes
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights.
