Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.
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I know I have a hit show on my hands.
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You always want your films to go as far as they can.
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The poet must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
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I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
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What I want you to take seriously is what we have to do for the youth.
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There is no single rule that governs the use of geometry. I don't think that one exists.
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What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.
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I have fond memories of all things Henson. I grew up on the stuff. My mom's a massive fan and made sure it was a part of my upbringing.
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As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
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If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.
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To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.
