Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.
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I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.
