Elf Sternberg Quotes
Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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A trance healer in Bali, an eagle woman, asked me, 'What is freedom, madam?' She had a chained eagle, her ally in healing, and it broke my heart, those huge, folded wings. So I asked her why the eagle couldn't fly free, why it was chained. And then her eagle eyes dug into mine, and she asked, 'What is freedom, madam?
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It's the way to do it. You can't have total transition unless you want to have total failure.
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Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.
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And Prince Bismarck was even more specific. One third, he said, of the students of German universities broke down from overwork, another third broked down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.
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Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
