Ellen Raskin Quotes
I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
Quotes to Explore
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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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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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.
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With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men’s victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men’s victimizer status camouflages men’s victim status.
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A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
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I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.
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The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
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I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
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I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.
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I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
