Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
Elizabeth Janeway
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
Jackie Evancho
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
Carli Lloyd
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Walter Gropius
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
Ban Ki-moon
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Samuel Beckett
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
Rachel Kushner
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I love books.
Gail Porter
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
A. Balasubramaniam
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
Candice Swanepoel
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
Barbara Kruger
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
Katee Sackhoff
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
Rachel Roy
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
Jack Black
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I respect all religions. What I don't respect is when people use religion to attack others. I've met people across the world, in the middle of nowhere, who are just trying to survive and all they have is religion. In some why, it helps them, and I wouldn't take it away from them. There are also people who use to to hate and kill. I don't consider them religious people.
Angelina Jolie
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To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation.
Tom Berenger
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I knew Mrs. Liberace. Lee and I were great friends. I know the whole inside story.
Debbie Reynolds
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Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
Elizabeth Janeway
