Beverly Engel Quotes
Apology reminds us that each person (including ourselves) deserves to be respected and treated fairly.
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.
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There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.
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I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.
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I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.
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We all do better when we all do better.
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Frederick Douglass had charged the air with rebellion and redemption, and these in turn had supported him in the heat of abolitionism. But the atmosphere changed to one of repression after the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
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Rap music was a savior to me.
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Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.
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Coats of bouclé, jacquard and cashmere;cartouche and tweed, all silver shot -and everything that could remind youof how easy I was not.
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This is the war on terrorism; it's worth fighting for.
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The last thing any sane person wants is a jihad.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.
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What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.
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Not in Chicago, in the heat of June, but at the ballot-boxes of the Republic, in the quiet of November, after the silence of deliberate judgment, will this question be settled. And now, gentlemen of the Convention, what do we want?
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The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
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Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.
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First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.
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Apology reminds us that each person (including ourselves) deserves to be respected and treated fairly.
