Ethel M. Dell Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
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Judges decide upon copyright law. They decide upon trademark law. They decide upon scientific issues. They decide upon very complex technical issues on a daily basis. So you must have confidence in the Supreme Court, that they will apply their mind and they will come out with a decision consistent with the Constitution.
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I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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I don't know that I appreciate things more because of how I grew up, but I am very realistic with what I expect out of people and what they expect out of me.
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In such a way she had done what her people prized above all else: she had given her respect to those different from herself.
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A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
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I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.
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Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion
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If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.
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Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.
