Elizabeth George Speare Quotes
She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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First appearance deceives many.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
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Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process - it's breaking down our visibility.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
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Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.
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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.
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I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.
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I am very bullish and I have been bullish on India for a very long time, and I see our own business growing very substantially.
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There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.
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She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.
