Elaine Scarry Quotes
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
Eduardo Chillida -
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
Walter Gilbert -
When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls -
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
Felix Frankfurter
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson -
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
Ferran Adria -
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
Pat Riley -
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Wendell Johnson -
With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
Victor Koo -
I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie -
My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
Ralph Norman -
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White -
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
Saku Koivu -
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Kuang
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
Vanessa Kerry -
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
Victoria Woodhull -
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
Oliver Stone -
There are so many kinds of beauty-have you ever looked in a small hidden pool in a wood, Becky? It's full of beauty, but it's not in the least spectacular, only restful and quiet and never-endingly fascinating.
Betty Neels -
She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.
Eric Jerome Dickey -
Beauty always takes place in the particular.
Elaine Scarry