Eliot Schrefer Quotes
The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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I don't watch a lot of television.
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I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.
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With 'Invisible,' I didn't want to create something that requires you to watch it more than once; I don't even expect people to watch it more than once per se. I just wanted you to have the experience and knowing that if you watch it a second time, it would be different because you would see different things.
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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this - that men despair and think things impossible.
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Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
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I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
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The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.
