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Elbert Hubbard Quotes

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 19, 1856 - May 7, 1915

Topics

Good Great Greatness Memory True

You only need two waves in a heat, so I try and keep my surfs short and sweet and not too draining. Keep them intense and try and get the two best waves I can.

Best Sweet Waves Short You I Can

I played guitar when I was a kid a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

Guitar I Can Kid Little Tool Around

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.

People Think You Know Want Because

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

Culture Me Follow Always Level Been

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.

Lorraine Toussaint

Children Small Think You Animals Up

Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.

Joseph P. Bradley

Nature Woman Man Law Difference

I think you have a lot of really good artists today. You have your Beyonce, Usher, Nicki Minaj and the like. But our generation, the artists were stronger. You're talking about myself, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, The Temptations, The Four Tops.

Aretha Franklin

Good Today Myself Think Generation

The more difficult the role, the more I am loving it.

I Am Loving More Difficult Role Am

When everything kind of hit the fan, my dad married Jo Anne, and suddenly there were five kids from the Ripleys and five kids from the Doughertys. Then my dad and Joanne had a baby. I usually have to make a diagram.

Baby Kind Everything Five Fan Kids

Even the best comedians aren't always sure what is going to be funny, what is going to work. So that means they're constantly and trying and failing in order to get there.

Phoebe Robinson

Work Funny Best Trying Always Going

Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.

Pramila Jayapal

Become More Military Soldiers Gone

We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.'

Time Woman Relax Wine You Trouble

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