Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes
With its mysterious, fluid movement, the snail was the quintessential tai chi master.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
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I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?
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I don't mean to be arrogant, but if we're executing our skills there's not a side that can get close to us.
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It's a democracy, and the reason why the conservative movement loses is because it believes that it is elite, that the smartest in its midst who have gone to the right schools and who have worked at the right think tanks and have the right opinions and the right friends can run it for the rest of America. That's why I'm a Tea Party adherent over a Republican or conservative establishment adherent.
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This is the potential start of something...awareness
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
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We see that coming back in the fourth quarter and going on into next year.
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When opportunity presents itself, don't be afraid to go after it.
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I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and during this time have gotten interested in writing what we can still call experimental music. It's not commercial music. And it's really a concert music, but a concert music for our time. And wanting to find the audience, because we've discovered the audience is really there. Those became really clear with Einstein on the Beach.
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If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all to think that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.
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With its mysterious, fluid movement, the snail was the quintessential tai chi master.
