Ethel M. Dell Quotes
What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
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Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.
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It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
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The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
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I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
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Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite different. A skill in day-to-day living which adds up to a happy, love-filled life is success. You can have this and other riches, too. The choice is yours.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
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To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.
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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.
