- Park
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things Quotes
The little word that covers everything.
"Things" is a catch-all, and the quotes collected here reflect that — a former mathematician recalling early academic interests, artists describing what inspires them, and honest admissions about not knowing what you want to become. For more on that last theme, see Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conservative statement is that telomere length is a biomarker, but it's probably not passive. There are some very intimate relationships between things such as molecular markers for inflammation and telomere health.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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- Nov 07, 2020