Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
Quotes to Explore
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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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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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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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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I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
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On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a solid gaggle of aunts, even if those of another, was an unnerving one. Reminding myself that in this life it is not aunts that matter, but the courage that one brings to them, I pulled myself together.
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There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.
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Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.
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You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.
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Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.
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What the English call 'comfortable' is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.
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The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
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Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
