Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.
Quotes to Explore
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.
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It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.
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Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.
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We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.
