Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Quotes
My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.
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I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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I did a lot of dancing when I was young.
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My parents are pretty open-minded.
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As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.
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I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.
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A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.
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Every poker player is smarter than me.
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So far it's 43 books in 25 years.
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I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
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Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.
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My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
