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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I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.
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When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.
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Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?
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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
