Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.

Jim Varney

WorkAloneTimeLightWinLonely

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

John Madden

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Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable.

Michael Ignatieff

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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

John Polanyi

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Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a comparable scenario in Saudi Arabia is hardly impossible.

Stephen Kinzer

PowerImpossibleHandsUpWhoSaudi

I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here.

Story Musgrave

I AmPeopleMeWishWithoutOut

Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

Roger Ailes

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I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college.

Rudy Giuliani

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In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will, however, only be put to the test if and when the time comes for another election, which the opposition may win.

Martin Van Creveld

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I just think that people should be in charge of their own bodies.

Michelle Phillips

PeopleThinkOwnChargeJustShould

The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets.

Domhnall Gleeson

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Is there any hungry fighters out there that say they don't get paid enough by the UFC? I tell you what: Cowboy's got the answer. Sign on the line. I don't care where you're at on the roster. Let's go.

Donald Cerrone

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