Elizabeth Berg Quotes
It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I can only control what I can control.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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I'm a political conservative.
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My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
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Certain struggles never end.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.
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I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.
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Find someone within the company who is on another team but is at a similar level or role as you to be a friend, a sounding board, and a place to go for candid feedback. Find a mentor within the company who resembles the leader you'd like to grow to be.
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I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated.
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And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
