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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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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δίχα δ' ἄλλων μονόφρων εἰμί
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A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
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I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.
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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
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In der Jugend lernt, im Alter versteht man.
