Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
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I think good things happen to good people.
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For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait.
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I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.
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I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.
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What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.
