Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
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I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
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What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
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Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.
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He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law, and not as a book of a human being made for education or entertainment.
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Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'
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Nada termina sin romperse, porque todo es sin fin.
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Donald Trump's own mother Mary escaped the bone-crushing poverty of Scotland's remote Outer Hebrides for the promise of New York in 1929.
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Playing in New York, there's a lot of pressure, but me and some Europeans like the pressure.
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I had five singles that did not work on country radio, and I still had fans that showed up to the shows.
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Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
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There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.
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οὔ τοι ἅπασα κερδίωνφαίνοισα πρόσωπον ἀλάθει᾽ ἀτρεκής·καὶ τὸ σιγᾶν πολλάκις ἐστὶ σοφώτατον ἀνθρώπῳ νοῆσαι.
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When I am on the plane and turbulence kicks in, I can't abide it. I feel like we are all going to die, and it takes everything in me to stay calm. But there are worse things to have to cope with.
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You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.
