Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.
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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
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My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
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I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
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If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
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Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.
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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.
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Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.
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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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Kids are coming online and connecting at a pace that's faster than their physical maturation process. Would you ever imagine that you'd have to talk to your kid about phishing before you're talking to him about the birds and the bees?
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John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.
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... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
