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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But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
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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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Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
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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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Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician. All of his poems are all like songs, and that's how I always try to start my thoughts.
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I'm not conventional. I try to be raw and vulnerable and gross.
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There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.
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I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
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A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
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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.
