Elisabeth of Wied Quotes
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love.
