Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quotes
Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.
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I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
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I'd love to play a musician in a film.
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The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
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It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
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I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
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Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.
