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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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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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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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.
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I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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The people who were marching at Peggy O'Hara's funeral gave the impression they were associated with the INLA, which is supposed to be on ceasefire and to have decommissioned some of their weapons. I ask if they could have honoured her in a more dignified way.
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We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
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People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.