Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
Caio Fonseca
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I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
Larry Ellison
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
Dani Shapiro
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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.
Natalie Gulbis
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
Nat Turner
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Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
Harlan Ellison
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I'll never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! I've had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers.
Irene Dunne
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At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.
Bennie Thompson
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When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the journey becomes kind of automated. There is an aliveness that comes with having to puzzle out directions for yourself. And you have to ask other people for help, which creates opportunity for social connection.
Franklin Foer
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The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.
Albert II of Belgium
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Today, fashion shows are now blogged and broadcast all over the world via social media. By the time the merchandise ships many months later, the newness and excitement has worn off, and in many cases, the customer has moved on.
Karen Katz
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We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.
W. J. T. Mitchell
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[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
Ernest Hemingway
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We saw so many phenomenal Rock 'n Roll bands that were not getting signed. We really needed to start looking outside the box.
Kiefer Sutherland
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
Aaron Patzer
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Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself. I just started taking vocal lessons to just work on my breathing, my vowels and stuff.
Bryson Tiller
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White wing'd angels meet the child
On the vestibule of life.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
