Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.
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Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.
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Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria.
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The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
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It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.
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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
