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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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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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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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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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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I regret all of my books.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.
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Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
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A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
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I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
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Ninth generation American, ma'am, and I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American. And so we have not escaped because I went to Yale all the problems of this country.
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The fact that I get to live a life of passion where I'm doing only things that I love in this world and help people along the way. Life's good. I always remind myself of that.
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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
