Liz Murray Quotes
Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.Liz Murray
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
Patricia Riggen -
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
Danica McKellar -
The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal -
I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
Feist -
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
Zhuangzi -
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
Odette Annable -
The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
Pankaj Mishra -
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
Rand Paul -
We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
Barton Gellman -
We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
Carly Fiorina -
When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
Ada Yonath -
I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.
Talulah Riley -
I spend a lot of time on my music.
Adam Hicks -
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
Carly Fiorina -
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
Sally Hawkins
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One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.
Mayim Bialik -
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
Orison Swett Marden -
Unforced, as conversation passed,he had the talent of salutingfelicitously every theme,of listening like a judge-supremewhile serious topics were disputing,or, with an epigram-surprise,of kindling smiles in ladies' eyes.
Alexander Pushkin -
"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now - isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once-but I loved you too."
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
Adam Savage -
Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.
Liz Murray