Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Quotes
Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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It must afford no small pleasure to a benevolent mind in the midst of a war, which daily makes so much havoc with the human species, to reflect, that the small-pox which once proved equally fatal to thousands, has been checked in its career, and in a great degree subdued by the practice of Inoculation.
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I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.
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Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.
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Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
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A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
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Hate sells.
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Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.
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Democrats and Republicans agree on most of a unified, politically viable, and workable immigration reform package. Both parties agree that border security is a key part of any strategy.
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In the public debate, while commentators and critics have targeted immigrants with blame and bullying, our nation's immigrants have simply kept on working, kept on contributing, and kept on hoping for a solution.
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I've been married twice, and I can tell you this right now: no one wants their mother in law all up in their business. Especially if you're a woman and you have your own mind.
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When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.
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I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.
