Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.
Quotes to Explore
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine in the glass, and it goes very well with the cheese. And that is what they do in France, and I think they set a good example.
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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
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I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.
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I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas.
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For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.
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it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.
