Ethel M. Dell Quotes
Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.
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I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
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In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
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The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
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There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'
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I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.
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Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.
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When I belonged to Jobbik, I didn't wear a kippa and I didn't light Hannukah candles.
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It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
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If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
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If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel.
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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.
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Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.
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I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
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Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'
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Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.
