Elizabeth Chandler Quotes
I took a step back. "Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.
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Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, 'I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)
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Every now and then you have like a realization moment where you get goosebumps and think, "I am literally the luckiest person in the world".
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I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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They kind of ran rampant on us. Stealing of home hurt.
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The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.
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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.
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It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see it's me but since I'm on a bike, they think, "No, it's not her." And by the time they realize it's me, I'm already gone.
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.
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To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
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The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.
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We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
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I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.
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Praise and disgrace cause fear.
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I think today we're setting a constitutional marker and also a constitutional check on presidential power because you can't allow the president to move forward with unfettered fashion.
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Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains
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We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'
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I took a step back. "Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.
