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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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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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.
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Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.
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I was a tomboy. I had a pudding-bowl haircut; I wore big Doc Martens and dungarees.
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The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.
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You only get back what you put in.
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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.
