Alison Elliott Quotes
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
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I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.
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The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.
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All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
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It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.
