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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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 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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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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You can't get much whiter than me.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
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Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.
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One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.
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My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We're trying to give our kids a sense of what's going into their bodies, and it's also good for family time.
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In Washington, I have worked hard for the people, and I've been loved by the people.
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I'm just showing my personality in my clothing.
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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
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The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
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No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education.
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“Education beats at the heart of sustainability.”
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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.
