Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes
I wrote to one of my doctors: I could never have guessed what would get me through this past year - a woodland snail and its offspring; I honestly don't think I would have made it otherwise. Watching another creature go about its life...somehow gave me, the watcher, purpose too. If life mattered to the snail and the snail mattered to me, it meant something in my life mattered, so I kept on...
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.
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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges globally and far beyond campus walls.
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Usually on 'Yo Gabba Gabba,' we eat healthy and organic. We don't play.
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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I wrote to one of my doctors: I could never have guessed what would get me through this past year - a woodland snail and its offspring; I honestly don't think I would have made it otherwise. Watching another creature go about its life...somehow gave me, the watcher, purpose too. If life mattered to the snail and the snail mattered to me, it meant something in my life mattered, so I kept on...
