Elisabeth of Wied Quotes
Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!
Quotes to Explore
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.
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From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.
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I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
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Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
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Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
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My hair walks into a room before I do.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.
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After I helped on P4 mixing and saw how things were being done I offered to take care of Project 3, and on it went from there. Plus I'm way cheap.
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We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
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Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.
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I had built my body to look like a boxer, then I lost it completely for 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns.' It was really tough gaining weight, building muscles, and then losing it completely for another film.
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If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.
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Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living
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Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!
