Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Es gibt Menschen mit leuchtendem und Menschen mit glänzendem Verstande. Die ersten erhellen ihre Umgebung, die zweiten verdunkeln sie.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Don't ask God to bless junk food and miraculously transform it so that it has nutritional value. That's not how God works.
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I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
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Es gibt Menschen mit leuchtendem und Menschen mit glänzendem Verstande. Die ersten erhellen ihre Umgebung, die zweiten verdunkeln sie.
