Eliza Leslie Quotes
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
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I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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My dad loves to eat, and he loves everything I make!
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My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.
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We are the echo of the future.
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Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.
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It might be helping to explore a story visually by going to see a museum exhibit that's relevant to something that somebody's reading, or going to see a show or listening to a piece of music or cooking a meal that's in one of the stories, something practical, something kinesthetic that draws the reader in and helps them to experience the story for themselves. Those are all ways I think we can kind of come in the back door and help kids find the joy, as opposed to the chore or responsibility, of reading.
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You don't have to go where you don't want to be to get where you want to be. You can go from where you are to where you want to be.
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Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.
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Flattery is praise without foundation.
