Elisabeth Hasselbeck Quotes
Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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I never said I was a genius.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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I would die without goals or a focus. I need something to keep me going.
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It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.
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Say something worth the words.
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My kids used to see me crying and depressed all the time, and that can affect kids as well.
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Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.
