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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Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.
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Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.
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It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.
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When Steny Hoyer brings up a resolution to support and recognize the University of Maryland men's basketball team - I'm not making this up - before we even had March madness, then you just know that it's just political favoritism.
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It got worse still as time went on because people did not sympathize with you any more. They couldn't do enough for you at first, and that helped, and then they got bored with your troubles. But your troubles went on just the same and you had to bear them alone.
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The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.
