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Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

Elizabeth Edwards

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 3, 1949 - December 7, 2010

Topics

Father Resilience I Can Say Living

A young female essayist saying they're influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they're influenced by Joni Mitchell.

Meghan Daum

Saying Young Like Influenced Female

It's been very funny to try to act like an adult. Even getting dressed. Every day, I'm like, 'Should I wear a blazer and walk around with an umbrella? Do I carry a briefcase?' Because I'm trying to be some image of the adults I saw on TV growing up.

John Mulaney

Funny Walk Day Growing Up Trying

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Shimon Peres

Growth Live Age Science Respect

I said to myself, 'I don't want to be coming sixth or seventh, and being the best in Britain. I want to be the best in the world and race against these Kenyan guys.'

Mo Farah

Myself Best World Being The Best

I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.

Juergen Teller

Feel Place Lights Venice December

The vertigo is a difficult thing: it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it. I've had it before, and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open, and that knocked me off my feet.

Jason Day

Me Feet Difficult Open Years Off

The allegations against Roy Moore are very serious. In the state of Missouri, they are criminal - these are criminal allegations.

Josh Hawley

Serious Against Criminal Missouri

My instincts are not comedic.

Josh Lucas

Instincts Comedic

I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

Jon Scieszka

Birthday Lunch Celebrate Born Earth

People always ask about learning all of your lines as an actor, and it's generally the easiest part of the job.

Johnny Galecki

Learning Job People Actor Ask Lines

I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve.

Johnny Weir

Change Great Job Man I Am Think

Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.

Clayton M. Christensen

Life World Think You Done Need