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.
La'Porsha Renae
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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.
Saint Ignatius
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
Samuel Foote
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Halima Aden
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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.
Adam Grant
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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.
Carl von Clausewitz
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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.
Dambisa Moyo
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
Xun Kuang
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I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
Daniel Ek
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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.
Walter Lord
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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.
Patrick Campbell
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Gaby Hoffmann
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
Barry Lopez
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I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
Sally Phillips
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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.
Nargis Fakhri
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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.
Barack Obama
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The Go-Go's were like my first babies.
Jane Wiedlin
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Game Of Thrones is arguably the hottest thing on television.
Cass Sunstein
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I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.
Lennox Lewis
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
Alfred Hitchcock
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I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
Elsie de Wolfe