Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
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Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
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Many states favor joint custody.
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History can never be covered up.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her - than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
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The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.
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Theres just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life.
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The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.
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In der Jugend lernt, im Alter versteht man.
