Elaine Scarry Quotes
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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The lack of trust in supranational entities and cosmopolitan elite creates a fertile ground for tribalist belongings and reactionary politics.
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We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. The United States government's doing that. There's a global fund that's providing money. mothers2mothers provides for mothers who come in who don't have education, who don't have support. mothers2mothers employs mothers with HIV, mothers who were patients recently in the very same facilities. We take those mothers who were patients who've had their babies, we bring them back, we train them, we pay them, to be health care professionals.
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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.
