Ellin Devis Quotes
There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
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When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.
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I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
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I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'
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We're not going to talk about spirituality and religion. Although I will tell you that I have experienced a deathbed conversion. I just bought a Macintosh.
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It doesn't mean much;It doesn't mean anything at all.The life I've left behind meIs a cold room.I've crossed the last lineFrom where I can't return.Where every step I took in faithBetrayed meAnd led me from my home.And sweet sweet surrenderIs all that I have to give.
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Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.
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By 2008, I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers home and await the cavalry charge there.
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Idleness is the great plague of India.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Mark what 'tis his mind aims at in the question, and not what words he expresses it in: and when you have informed and satisfied him in that, you shall see how his thoughts will enlarge themselves, and how by fit answers he may be led on farther than perhaps you could have imagine. For knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.
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There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
