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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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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If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.
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The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them.
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Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.
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The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.
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If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?
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You have it or you don't... I think I have it.
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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.
