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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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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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 am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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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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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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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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However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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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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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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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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We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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How you define a problem shapes how you address it.
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Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
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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.
