Emma Bonino Quotes
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.
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In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
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When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
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He would have liked to say goodbye,Shake hands with many friends.In Highgate now his finger-bonesStick through his finger-ends.You, God, who treat him thus and thus,Say, 'Save his soul and pray.'You ask me to believe You andI only see decay.
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A householder should pay more attention to the right development of character amongst his children than to earning money.
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The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.
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Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
