Ellen Langer Quotes
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
T. E. Hulme -
Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
Fergus Henderson -
Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
Okky Madasari -
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
Kapil Sibal
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
Macaulay Culkin -
So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
Jackie Cooper -
I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
Uzo Aduba -
I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
Walt Mossberg -
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie -
I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.
Carlos Ghosn
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If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
Eddie Obeng -
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
Zadie Smith -
I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
Yogi Berra -
All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
Kate Millett -
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
Tea Obreht
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The sun shines. Sometimes it burns too hot, sometimes it bothers the eyes, but it is a reality of life, and so we live beneath its glare and seek shade and shelter as needed.
Brandon Mull -
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth -
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni -
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave.
Ezra Pound -
Of course, nothing just falls into your lap - to get where I am now, I've worked hard.
Irina Shayk -
The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.
Ellen Langer