Ellen Langer Quotes
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.
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Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.
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The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.
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Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.
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The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'
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I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.
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Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
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To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.
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Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.
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You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.
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I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.
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There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.
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We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic representations. We could make the same case about the church and our government. But hip-hop, like society, isn't one dimensional.
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Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'
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What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.
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I think over the past four years, I have changed as a person - because my focus is not on the medal. None of the medals I have at home, I even know where they are - they're in shoe boxes and random places.
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Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
