Elmina Shepard Taylor Quotes
Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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I know that there is one additional thing that I've learned and that is that what Harvard does and says has an enormous resonance that goes beyond Zip code 02138.
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Any time you make the transfer of 'I've created something, and I'm giving it to you, and I hope it makes you happy,' that's good.
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In the '80s, they were using an awful lot of technology but hadn't really figured out how it worked yet... You had these really great, simple pop songs turned into these gigantic overproductions.
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'24' was so serious that it was nice to join 'NCIS' and even be able to smile once or twice.
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We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
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Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
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A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.
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Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.
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I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.
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I hate in-ring promos. I've never done a promo in WWE that I liked.
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Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.
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Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
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Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.
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Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.
