Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
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A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.
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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
