Ellen MacArthur Quotes
You concentrate on solving your problems or keeping the boat safe or making sure you take the best route through the storm so you don't get caught in the worst part of it and you just concentrate on coming out the other side.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.
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I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.
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The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.
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If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
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You concentrate on solving your problems or keeping the boat safe or making sure you take the best route through the storm so you don't get caught in the worst part of it and you just concentrate on coming out the other side.
