Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Quotes
As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world.
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I got to the point where I'd featured on songs; I'd done backing singing for major artists. I'd done all these shows, but it was always for other people.
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I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
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We appear to be overplaying this global warming issue as global warming is nothing new. It has happened in the past, not once but several times, giving rise to glacial-interglacial cycles.
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In defense of the right to...marry whom we please - we might quote some of the basic principles of our government and suggest that in some things individual rights to tastes should control....If a good man from Maryland sees fit to marry a disenfranchised woman from New York, there should be no legal impediments to the union.
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Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
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As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.
