Ellen Langer Quotes
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.
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I learned life from some good teachers.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
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I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.
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Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.
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The situation has gone from bad to worse.
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We cannot get into a situation, and I believe the family understand this, where we start bargaining with terrorists and kidnappers, because if we were to, we would not make Iraq or anywhere else safer.
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What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.
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At that time the African American community was not a large reading community. They learned from observation and participation. So we had a lot of visuals that they could identify with. Photographs and short captions, as opposed to long, drawn-out essays and editorials. They were visual interpretations of the conditions people lived in. Inner cities, poor communities. Combined with revolutionary imagery. The people saw themselves in the artwork. They became the heroes. They could see their uncles in it. They could see their fathers or their brothers and sisters in the art.
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A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.
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World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.
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How remorseless life is!
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What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.
