Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
The evil times had come of eking out, of making do. At least, my husband seemed to regard the times we had arrived at as evil, but that was because he was in the unfortunate position of having a past to compare them with. I, who had practically no past, and whose family had never fallen from glory for the reason that it had had no glory to fall from, thought the times wholly delightful; and anyhow I rather liked camphor.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.
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Like the rich man, they can have so many things right for so long and sometimes at the end they can lose it all because of one wrong decision.
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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I have a really, really strong work ethic and I learned that from my dad because my dad was a workaholic but he always had even more time for us. As hard as he would work, he always made the time. So it's just about balancing family, I think, and work - and giving everything 100%. And that's what he taught me.
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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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The evil times had come of eking out, of making do. At least, my husband seemed to regard the times we had arrived at as evil, but that was because he was in the unfortunate position of having a past to compare them with. I, who had practically no past, and whose family had never fallen from glory for the reason that it had had no glory to fall from, thought the times wholly delightful; and anyhow I rather liked camphor.
