Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.
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Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.
