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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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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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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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
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Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.
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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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I was beginning to understand, a little. 'Is that why you’re a usurer?'Madding chuckled. 'I prefer the term investor. And my rates are perfectly fair, thank you.''Drug dealer, then.''I prefer the term independent apothecary-'
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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.
