I was living out a parallel situation in my own life, ... feeding frenzy.


Eleanor Clift

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It's like a shark-feeding frenzy.
RAY WILLIAMS
We're seeing a partnership feeding frenzy.
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I think the feeding frenzy in Perth is over. It's a lot tougher than it was three years ago.
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In a more balanced market there's not the feeding frenzy.
MICHAEL CONWAY
We're fortunate in having Lost, Desperate Housewives and My Name Is Earl but it is fiercely more com...
KEVIN LYGO
There is a feeding frenzy for products in the market now that give vendors a horizontal view.
JULIE CRAIG
They violated every rule in the book. I've studied feeding frenzies. This is a classic feeding frenz...
LARRY SABATO
I feared for my life; it was a life-or-death situation. In some ways, I've never really gotten it ou...
WINSTON CAVIN
Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision. I had to make my own way.
JOE ORTON
I was visiting my grandchildren one day and realized I was feeding them my own product, Too Tarts, a...
ARMAND HAMMER
For those travelers lucky enough to fly business or first class, beware of the feeding frenzy.
LISA WHEELER
I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.
GILLIAN JACOBS
The bottom line is this was probably a dumb call. You pick up the phone, you say, 'Let's get a state...
BILL SAMMON
I think what had been described as the feeding frenzy is over. And things might slow down to merely ...
MIKE DWIGHT
I took the situation into my own hands — I was just being a mama.
SHEILA PORTER
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
LES DAWSON
By the year 2015, these schools will be $50,000, and they would still have wait lists. It's like a f...
AMANDA UHRY
Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I kne...
JENNIFER ASHLEY
In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream.
SOFIA VERGARA
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Eleanor is more vibrant than any female icon in our own century,
JEAN LECLERC
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT
If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are st...
ELEANOR CLIFT
Founding Sisters and the 19th Amendment,
ELEANOR CLIFT
It's obvious that the local and state authorities were overwhelmed... and that the federal governmen...
ELEANOR CLIFT
There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the f...
ELEANOR CLIFT
The blame game is a derogatory term for accountability and we've had failures on the part of governm...
ELEANOR CLIFT
It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
ELEANOR CLIFT
If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contem...
ELEANOR CLIFT
Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who ...
ELEANOR CLIFT
Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the exte...
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Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
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The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly shor...
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Life showed up today, and I showed out by living my best life.
SUSIE L HILL
I was completely shattered. I couldn't think clearly. When something like that happens to you, you a...
WALTER MAYER
The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).
MARILYN MONROE
I don't think the quality of wrestling in Pennsylvania has fallen off. In fact, it might have gotten...
BOB BUBB
I have found my life purpose. In a very tragic situation, I have found my life purpose.
GAIL POWERS
I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert....
LEV GROSSMAN
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
CALVIN TRILLIN
Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I h...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have...
PAULA DANZIGER
I'd like to really make the Montgomery Clift biopic happen.
MATT BOMER
It was a frenzy that got out of hand, ... The certifications calmed things down.
STEVE GOLDMAN
It was a frenzy that got out of hand. The certifications calmed things down.
STEVE GOLDMAN
Being a woman in control of a company - even a small private company, as ours was then - was so sing...
KATHARINE GRAHAM
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else ...
DEAN KOONTZ
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I ...
CLAUDE NICOLLIER
I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a...
LITTLE RICHARD
He was in a bad situation and didn't know how else to make a living.
HERMAN FRANCK
My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
I felt like I was in a zone and every time I got the ball, it was going in. My team was feeding off ...
ANTHONY SLACK
There's a feeding frenzy for transparency and disclosure on Capitol Hill, and that's not a good way ...
ROBERTA BASKIN
I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.
JENNIFER ANISTON
In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
When I dream go into a parallel universe: dreaming of my past memories that my subconscious was hold...
MARIAH REBECCA ARGUELLO
We have all the hallmarks here of a rush to spend money. We have got to be careful that this does no...
JEFF SESSIONS
Living your own life is more difficult than living.
SAURABH UBOWEJA
I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spiri...
SHAUNA NIEQUIST
I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life… And that was my own fault.
GARY HOPKINS
It's probably my fault that the tide turned right there. I took my own team out of the game. You jus...
BRAD HEMPHILL
I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON
I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spi...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.
RUTH REICHL
I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
TANITH LEE
Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation ...
RAINBOW ROWELL
To offer them money in a situation where it could be just feeding their habit -- it really smacks of...
GLORIA FELDT
We don't really know what to expect, but we tend to think it's going to be as strong as our first sh...
DAVE PALMER
It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I wa...
CAT STEVENS
It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I wa...
YUSUF ISLAM
The song evolved from the situation of my daughter's life ... her life-threatening illness. I was ex...
HECTOR VENEGAS
That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT
Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.
BESSIE HEAD
I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.
FRED KOREMATSU
Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of...
JONATHAN AMES
My life and career is my own adventure.
DARIO ARGENTO
I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terro...
ATHOL FUGARD
I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.
ASHLEY TISDALE
When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less ab...
STEVEN SPIELBERG
Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who y...
JOHN BRADSHAW
I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and...
KEKE PALMER
She Eleanor Roosevelt got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL
She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL
She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL
I dance through life, living my bliss, steeped in joy.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE
I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chick...
LOUIS TOMLINSON
Living a Life in Sin Sucks! It Sucks the Life Out of You!
DEBRA ROBERTS
I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '...
JANE GOODALL
I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me n...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is r...
OGDEN NASH
While I was looking the other way your fire went out
Left me with cinders to kick into dust
KRISTIN CASHORE
Freedom carries sacrifice,
3 DOORS DOWN
I learned that LIVING my LIFE is best about LIVING by my highest priorities.
LORRIN L. LEE
Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending o...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
I was thirty years old and still living by the seat of my pants. I probably should have had my life ...
CHIP GAINES
She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
RALPH MCGILL
When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was ...
BORIS BECKER
I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could ...
CARL STOKES

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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
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The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
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The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a...
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This opens the door, and the last thing we need is more out-of-state trash.
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Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
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A man should be what he can do'
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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Actors are one family over the entire world.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they d...
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing t...
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel ho...
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
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It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!
Eleanore Roosevelt
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Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
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Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness.
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I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the w...
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Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there
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Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do
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Whatever come we have to meet it.
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A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
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Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
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What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
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A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Can...
ELEANOR CATTON
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've create...
ELEANOR CATTON
Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My hor...
ELEANOR CATTON
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
ELEANOR CATTON
I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON
I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.
ELEANOR MONDALE
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
ELEANOR MONDALE
Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good...
ELEANOR CATTON
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and...
ELEANOR CATTON
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble...
ELEANOR CATTON
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one...
ELEANOR CATTON
Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th...
ELEANOR FARJEON
Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
ELEANOR FARJEON
The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found sign...
ELEANOR ACER
One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do ...
ELEANOR ACER
It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decisi...
ELEANOR ACER
This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution t...
ELEANOR ACER
The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than mos...
ELEANOR MONDALE
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe wha...
ELEANOR CATTON
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT