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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My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.
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I paint for the check cashing place down the street.
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In der Jugend lernt, im Alter versteht man.
