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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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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Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.
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I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
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Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
