Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
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It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come a lot more pressure.
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I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.
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I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.
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When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
