Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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I have a lot of downtime in airports and on flights.
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Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the flaws of its author. But those hardy souls who slog past the weaknesses will be rewarded by a book that is brave, original and often fun.
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Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.
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There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
