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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.
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Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.
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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.
