Elizabeth Noble Quotes
She was a person, jen, and people aren't perfect. and she wasn't perfect and that's okay.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
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I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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The interviews have gotten much longer with 'Humans of New York.' When I was first starting, I was just photographing people. And then I went to just kind of including a quote or two. Now when I'm approaching somebody on the street, I'm spending about 30 to 45 minutes with them often.
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I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.
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What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.
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I have always wanted to do a Christmas album and covers.
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I went to New York to be where the beautiful people were and it didn't disappoint me. It's so open. It's a great platform to do your own thing or start new things. When I got there, I started living for the first time.
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The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'
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She was a person, jen, and people aren't perfect. and she wasn't perfect and that's okay.
