Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.
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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
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Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.
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Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.
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Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.
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I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
