Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.
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We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.'
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To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
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Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.
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I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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I want to be the surgeon who cuts you openWho fixes all of life's mistakesI want to be the house that you were raised inThe only place where you feel safe.
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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
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I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.
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In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.
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The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.
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We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.
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It's inspiring being surrounded by people who do more than you. It makes you want to do better. You're in the position to learn from the best.
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It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.
