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.
Karen Finerman
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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.
Madchen Amick
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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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.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Abe Lemons
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
Mackenzie Rosman
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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.
J. G. Ballard
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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.
Daniel Barenboim
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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.
Aaron Klein
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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.
Camille Paglia
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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.
Randi Weingarten
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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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
Action Bronson
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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.
Orhan Pamuk
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
Ram Charan
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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.
Dan Shechtman
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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.
Dan Jenkins
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
Ban Ki-moon
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Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
James Addison Baker
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
Barbara Boxer
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
Walter Jon Williams
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.
Nancy Pelosi
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The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year.
Mark Kennedy
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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.
Elizabeth Bibesco