Elisabeth Marbury Quotes
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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You have to follow that next step.
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I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
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They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
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Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
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I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
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Hospitality, or flinging wide the door to friends and wayfarers alike, was once important, back in a world without motels or safety nets, where a friend might find his castle burnt down or a wayfarer find bandits on his trail.
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The silhouette is the most important thing in clothes. Every French girl knows that. High-waisted trousers give you long legs and a pretty bum which, after all, is what we all want.
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What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
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The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.
