Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I get homesick.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I don't have many friends.
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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I value the people who are willing to make themselves vulnerable and share work that is sensitive and maybe even hard to sing sometimes. Because that's the music that provides the most solace and solidarity to the world.
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From my point of view it's impossible to cut debt in a country with new debt from another country.
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I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
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There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.
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If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.
