Ellen Schreiber Quotes
Aunt Libby: "I think I'm getting married! I've been dying to tell you." Raven: "You are? Congrats! Dad didn't mention..." Aunt Libby: "Well, okay, it's not official or anything. In fact, we haven't officially gone out yet. I just met him last night.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.
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School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.
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There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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How many is there, John?.Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?
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I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?
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And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
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I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.
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I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.
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It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.
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I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!
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If you want to be a good intuitive Bayesian—if you want to naturally make good predictions, without having to think about what kind of prediction rule is appropriate—you need to protect your priors. Counterintuitively, that might mean turning off the news.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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I admire actors who are bold and try to go forward over the cliche and propose something original to the audience.
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Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
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Aunt Libby: "I think I'm getting married! I've been dying to tell you." Raven: "You are? Congrats! Dad didn't mention..." Aunt Libby: "Well, okay, it's not official or anything. In fact, we haven't officially gone out yet. I just met him last night.
