Elisabeth Marbury Quotes
I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
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Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.
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I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
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And he still thinks, in the little bit of his head that's still him, that he's not a zombie. That he's not dead, that there's a threshold he hasn't stepped over. But he crossed it long time ago.
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To all of our viewers out there - expect the unexpected.
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I was down in Wilmington, Delaware, doing 'The Desk Set' with Shirley Booth. I was at the DuPont Hotel. I walked out, and there was this grill next door called the New England Grill. I loved seafood. They said very nicely, 'We don't serve colored people.'
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I have a Maltese Shih Tzu. I'm notorious for dressing her up in sweaters.
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Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.
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I wait and take on projects that I think can work.
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I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because life is defined by struggle, it's kind of the perfect microcosmic experience to explore that. 'Here we are, struggling.' It's about people persevering and persevering and persevering.
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Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
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Sometimes, cameras can't capture a scene like your brain does. But the use of apps can help get it just a little closer to reality.
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I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.
