Elsie Lincoln Benedict Quotes
Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak. Love isn't enough; there must also be understanding.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by themselves. It seems to be at rest, yet it certainly has a plan.
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Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
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At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.
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With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
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Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak. Love isn't enough; there must also be understanding.
