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.
C. L. R. James -
Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
Dan Gertler -
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.
Carli Lloyd -
My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.
Gabrielle Union -
Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.
Hansika Motwani -
The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.
Chevy Chase
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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.
Aleksey Igudesman -
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.'
Chris Pratt -
I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.
Jessalyn Gilsig -
Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
Charles Osgood -
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.
Amy Schumer -
Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.
Janet Reno
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You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.
Lisa Jewell -
I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.
Azzedine Alaia -
Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.
Peter Dinklage -
What happened is we went into a recession beginning in December of 2007 that was the worst since 1929. And it is a very deep hole that we have been struggling to get out of.
Austan Goolsbee -
I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
John Foster Dulles -
If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.
Tony Blair
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I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.
Brett Young -
The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.
Carol S. Dweck -
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
Candice Bergen -
David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).
David Cannadine -
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
Ellen Langer