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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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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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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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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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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I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
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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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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
