Elliott Chaze Quotes
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.
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I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
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I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the world going crazy around them?
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The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.
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When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.
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As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.
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I don't want to fake anybody out and make them think I'm a great actress.
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My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.
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I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that.
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That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics.
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There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.
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In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
