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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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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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem.
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As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.
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The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
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Secrets interest us all, I think.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.
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To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.
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But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.
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Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.
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Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.
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The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.
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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.
