Elana Meyers Quotes
I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
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Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
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We're not drafting for next year's team. We're drafting for a talent base. An immediate need primarily is not as important as getting a player with the best potential available.
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I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
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Look, if the reason you two aren't speaking doesn't make sense, then the reason you contact him again doesn't have to make sense, either. If nothing makes sense, act accordingly.
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I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.
