Elliot Paul Quotes
Voters in a so-called democracy may depose tyrants or crooks in isolated cases but they cannot give birth, full grown like Minerva, to honest and experienced statesmen to take their places.

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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
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A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.'
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She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now.
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In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.
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I'm not picking up dog shit. I'm a rock star.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
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That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.
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I have expos'd myself to the enmity of all metaphysicians, logicians, mathematicians, and even theologians; and can I wonder at the insults I must suffer?
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It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.
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I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
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Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.
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First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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I don't know why, it's just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It's just my truth. Sometimes my emotions can be mistaken for messages.
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I just like playing guys, normal dudes. That's the stuff that I really enjoy watching: when it feels grounded.
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I have this strange notion that clothes should be fun.
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I would just have a different policy than what he has espoused... We need to recognize we are not going to deport 12 million people, and ... we shouldn't.
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Voters in a so-called democracy may depose tyrants or crooks in isolated cases but they cannot give birth, full grown like Minerva, to honest and experienced statesmen to take their places.