Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
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I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
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Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
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My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
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Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
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If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
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I believe strongly that most people in this country U.S. don't want a totalitarian state...And when conservatives say, "Get the government out of my backyard," the reality is, you can't say that and put somebody in the White House who's gonna be in your business.
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I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
