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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.
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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.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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.
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I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'
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To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.
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As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
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I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
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Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.
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I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.
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How would you describe the worst run you ever had? Precious!
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.
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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.
