Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
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Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
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I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
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Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.
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Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
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Senior academic condemns ‘deluded’ supporters of GM food as being ‘anti-science’ and ignoring evidence of dangers (4 March 2015)
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When you jerk off, you’re saying 'Hey, I care about me.'
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My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.
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At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
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People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.
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I think that's kind of my forte is that I tell people beforehand that I'm going to steal from them. And a lot of people think that that makes them safe, and hopefully I wake them up a little bit.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.
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A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
