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.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Live
  • Taken
  • Streets

• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
  • Form
  • Complete

• It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Attention
  • Question
  • Television

• Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Know
  • Conscience
  • Resistance

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Everything

• There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Man
  • Greed

• 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.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Proud
  • Tradition
  • Self-Esteem

• 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.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Business
  • Failure

• 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.

  

  Ian Watson
  • You
  • Care
  • Cost

• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Business
  • Success
  • Failure

• There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Victim
  • Places

• And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Different
  • Change
  • Simple

• America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• 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.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Long
  • Control
  • Myself

• Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Everyone
  • Africa
  • Relatives

• 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.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Rooms

• Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Friends
  • Cold

• I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Time
  • Done
  • Business

• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Help
  • Night
  • Suffering

• That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Help
  • Beautiful
  • Energy

• I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
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