Eleanor Clift Quotes
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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Part I, 4
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If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens
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Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.
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What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.
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Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
