Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
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I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I find the business world hard.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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Each boat is worth the price of a new university and they are watched by gin-soaked yachting types, male and female, in captain's hats lounging in deckchairs inside Perspex covered enclosures at the front of yet more expensive, floating country houses representing nothing more than elegantly vulgar expressions of dodgy wealth. The America's Cup.
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Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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You have to have courage to be obedient to God.
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The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
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Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!
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When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.
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When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
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Truth, like climate, is common property.
