Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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My education was very tough.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
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With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
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I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.
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I prefer to live in South Africa because it's a wonderful country; because I've been there for 300 years.
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I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.
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The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.
