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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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.'
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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.
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I think what I've learned most from being an actress is that there's no method. That you have to invent this process over and over and over again, depending on who you're working with and what you're doing.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
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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.
