Ellen Langer Quotes
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
Gail Devers
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,' so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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When you play against people that's better than you, you get better.
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We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
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As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
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I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.
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Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.
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When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.
