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Ellen Ullman Quotes

I like the little semi-competencies of human beings, I realize. Governance, after all, is a messy business, a world of demi-solutions and compromise, where ideals are tarnished regularly.

Ellen Ullman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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Nationality: american

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Business World Compromise Messy

I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.

Jerry West

Me Surprise Others Things Mention

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

Meg Ryan

Myself Thought I Can Person Out Who

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

John McGraw

Baseball Game

There's some really good vegan protein shakes you can get, and I'm a big fan of matcha lattes instead of having espresso.

Stella Maxwell

Good You Big Protein Get Vegan

But my longevity is due to my good timing.

Tony Curtis

Good Timing Longevity Due

In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.

Romesh Gunesekera

Perspective Building Library London

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

Mary Antin

Heart Children You Matter Jewish Up

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

Mitchell Zuckoff

Money Easy Desire Driven Common

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Children Money Parents College Hard

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

Jay Electronica

Me Down Different Just Everybody

I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times.

Jonathan Groff

Work Modern Seen Because Six Wanted

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

Chris Bell

Mistakes Fool Effort People Me