Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Quotes
During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.
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During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.
