Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.

Elizabeth McCracken

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A talented executive whose interests are aligned with the firm's and is confident in her role will always recruit stars who exceed herself in various ways, but one who is worried about her value to the firm will not.

Joe Lonsdale

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I have never won big fights just doing one thing, being one-dimensional.

Andre Ward

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The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.

John Ortberg

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Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Matthew Henry

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Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together.

Ruby Dee

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I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.

Ross Butler

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When I first joined the Secret Service in 1983, I was right out of college, having spent the last two or three years of my college experience working as a police officer for the city of Orlando, Florida.

Julia Pierson

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I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

Jon Stewart

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I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

Chris Brown

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If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

Cory Lidle

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My mother was born in a refugee camp in Germany before the family immigrated to western Canada. They were able to get visas thanks to my grandfather's older sister, who had immigrated between the wars.

Chrystia Freeland

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My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.

Chuck Berry

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