Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes

While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve. As the Holocene mass extinction rushes on, which species will be left? And what new creatures will evolve that we cannot now imagine - for what creature could ever have imagined us?

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
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• I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Good
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• The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• God is best known in not knowing him.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
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• Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Good
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• I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
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• St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • God
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• As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Important
  • Community

• I'm from the creative side of Hollywood. I'm up for anyone that wants to support my work. If you have eyeballs and give me a budget and are nice to me, I'm in.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Support

• It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Father
  • Song
  • Stuff

• You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in six months there's going to be a whole other set of things to know - again in a year, in five years.' The tools will change, the knowledge will change, the worries will change.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Knowledge
  • Change
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• I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd be ashamed of them, I throw them out, but if they're mediocre and they'll serve the purpose for which they're designed, that is, a mixing bowl or a soup bowl or a plate or whatever, I sell them. And this income from the sale of these pots permits me to go on and make other pots. It's even more important now that I've quit teaching, because I do not have a teacher's salary to fall back on.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
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• When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

  

  Barbara Cooper
  • Life
  • Love
  • Regret

• I want to challenge myself. I'm desperate to play in the Premier League, and I want to play for England.

  

  Jack Grealish
  • Myself
  • Challenge
  • League

• A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • War
  • Fight
  • Survive

• My illness has changed me - I've always thought "life is short and I wanna make as much of it as I can," but I really don't have time to mess around. This has really been a wake-up call in terms of what's important, and I'm working hard to figure that out. I need to get better at not doing favors for people all the time. It's hard because there's so many people who have helped me get to the point where I'm in a band that people wanna come see, or where people pay money to see me lecture.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Important
  • Changed

• While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve. As the Holocene mass extinction rushes on, which species will be left? And what new creatures will evolve that we cannot now imagine - for what creature could ever have imagined us?

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Survive
  • Illness
  • Species