Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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It's one of the things that weirdly I always used to like about my job: that expressing the emotions of a writer or someone creative and breathing empathy and life into a character people can then identify with, that they'd feel less alone.
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You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.
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There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.
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My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
