Eileen Wilks Quotes
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.
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The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.
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You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success - the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates jobs?
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What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.
