Elizabeth Meriwether Quotes
People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I am a just man.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
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When you're writing a team book where every character already has his or her own series, you don't have dominion over them as individuals - but what you can exploit is their relationships with one another.
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This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.
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People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.
