Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
All the members of the dog family - domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes - are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory - you can't have others taking it from you, because then you won't have enough food.

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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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When I'm hired just to be an actress, I don't have to worry about anything else but showing up on set, making sure I know my lines and making sure I know what I'm bringing to the character. When I'm a creator and executive producer, I have to worry about the whole thing.
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I'm trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.
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When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.
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When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.
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Family is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't mean you can't do other stuff in your life. In fact, having a family makes whatever other thing you have that much richer. If it was just me, I'd be home alone and think, 'Well, something good happened at work,' but it's nicer to share it with people you love.
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All the members of the dog family - domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes - are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory - you can't have others taking it from you, because then you won't have enough food.