Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
However, few marriages, he understood, were lasting successes, so that perhaps after all it didn’t much matter.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.
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You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
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If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.
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My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.
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Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
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Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!
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However, few marriages, he understood, were lasting successes, so that perhaps after all it didn’t much matter.
