Elizabeth Wein Quotes
People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realise.
Elizabeth Wein
Quotes to Explore
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
Maisie Williams
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The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy.
Karl Marx
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Master, Master of Light, Whose eye dwells in the seeking fingers of the blind, You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration.
Kahlil Gibran
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I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
Andrea McLean
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Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.
Andy Dunn
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I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
Paulo Coelho
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When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.
Amy Ray
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The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill.
Rivers Cuomo
Weezer
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We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.
Donna Karan
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If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.'
Brian Binnie
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I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
Jim Brown
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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
Joan D. Vinge
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Because this territory in my internal universe is continually shifting, I've learned to look for patterns and rhythms in the chaos that I can use as guides when I can't locate steady ground. So I make maps from my memories. I make my maps out of words and stories.
Sascha Altman DuBrul
Choking Victim
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Stay big in your work and small in your life.
Alber Elbaz
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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
John Donne
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Seamless, careful, by-the-book performance provides no evidence of what the spider's thinking about the fly enmeshed in its web.
John Edgar Wideman
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Overall, Id say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.
Julie Kagawa
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People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realise.
Elizabeth Wein
