Elizabeth Marvel Quotes
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I won't join another band again.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.
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Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
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With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
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If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that.
