Elizabeth Carter Quotes
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.
Elizabeth Carter
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
Barbara Boxer
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I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
Ian Mckellen
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I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
Ira Sachs
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À vous il faut la vie naturelle, à moi la vie factice.
Edgar Degas
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This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
Jack Layton
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
Dambisa Moyo
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'When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.'
Willie Nelson
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Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
Anton Chekhov
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin
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And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
Janis Karpinski
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When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.
Lindsay Mendez
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All my stuff is men's fashion. It's always oversized shirts, boyfriend blazers and trousers.
Bella Heathcote
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I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
John Hanning Speke
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Everything in the world today happened to Tony, and he still finished fifth. I got to tell you, that's pretty miraculous right there.
Joe Gibbs
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I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person.
Joel Madden
Good Charlotte
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If you don't know about the 'black male code,' you should. It's something black boys learn early, even before adolescence. It goes, in part, like this: Even though you're not a criminal, some people assume you are, especially if you're wearing certain clothes. Never argue with the police, but protect your dignity and take pride in humility.
Donna Brazile
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When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.
W. Kamau Bell
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Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.
Elizabeth Carter
