Elihu Burritt Quotes
Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.Elihu Burritt
Quotes to Explore
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
Lamar Odom -
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn -
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
Abraham Lincoln -
I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
Laura Chinchilla -
I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.
Malin Akerman -
For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Adam Grant
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.
Ursula Andress -
I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
Karin Fossum -
Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
Danica McKellar -
They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
Barbra Streisand -
I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
Zach Braff
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I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'
J. August Richards -
To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.
Sam Graves -
As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
Wang Shi -
I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
Yitzhak Rabin -
Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.
Rachel Hunter -
We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
Barack Obama
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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
Barry Eichengreen -
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
Charles Dickens -
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Quentin Tarantino -
I have led a pretty colorful life.
Corey Feldman -
You know where the people who killed people in San Bernardino came from. You know where people who did 9/11 came from. You know where the people who did Paris came from, where they transited, where they went. None of them even set foot in Iran. So why are you punishing people who are visiting Iran for that? . . . We're not going to radicalize them. We never have. Your allies have radicalized people who visited.
Mohammad Javad Zarif -
Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.
Elihu Burritt