Eleanor Robson Belmont Quotes
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
Quotes to Explore
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.
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If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
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Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes.
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Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
