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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'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.
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If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
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My dream of dreams is to write Broadway musicals. All of this Twitter and TV writing is just a day job.
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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
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I can talk to execs very clearly, very plainly. I don't get nervous in front of them anymore.
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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.
