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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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
Gail Devers -
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 was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
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People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
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When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.
