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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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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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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A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
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It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
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I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
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I'm still too hungry for whatever comes next.
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
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My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.
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In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.
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Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.
