Ellen Langer Quotes
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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I always joke that I want to be able to retire from boxing and still be able to look into the mirror without seeing scars all over my face. I love my sport, but I would rather not have to spend hours doing my makeup to cover up the memories once I retire.
Mandy Bujold -
Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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As for myself, I was never against Russia.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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Entrepreneurs are not that special. If you are one, stop drinking the Kool Aid, and if you aren't, definitely don't drink it.
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Trump and Yanukovych have shared the same political brain: an operative named Paul Manafort.
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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.
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Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
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I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.
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When I was a younger guy doing comedy, it was a big struggle. Promoters canceled me out of clubs left and right when I called somebody a dummy or a yo-yo. Then they realized I was different.
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I'm not very diplomatic and wear my heart on my sleeve.
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In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.
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I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.
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Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
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By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.
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I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.
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In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
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We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.
