Eliza Acton Quotes
Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.
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In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
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I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.
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Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
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He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
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Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.
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I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
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Before I went to boarding school, I had never read a fashion magazine. I grew up on a council estate in London, and fashion magazines were a luxury item that weren't even on my mind. The closest I got to a fashion magazine was my cousin's 'Top of the Pops' magazines, where we would learn the lyrics to every song and put posters on our walls.
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When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.
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Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.
