Elizabeth Wein Quotes
She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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Our life is full of empty space.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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Timid salesmen have skinny kids.
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O Banner!Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.
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This is near enough true bliss.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
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I'm very into Zodiac signs, so when I meet a fellow Scorpio, I always get really excited.
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I've been lucky in the sense that I haven't become famous.
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You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.
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If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
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My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
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I love our traditional marriage. I would never cheat on Hank.
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I think one of the issues quite often, from a mental health perspective, that people find power behind a gun. Frequently, that is the issue behind most people. They feel a loss of power. They use a gun to sort of equalize things. And, of course, once the process begins, quite often people die in that process.
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She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.
