Elizabeth Blair Lee Quotes
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
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I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
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A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians
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Where do I live?
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Ninety-nine people out of a hundred have not seriously considered what they mean by the term 'exist' nor how a thing qualifies itself to be labelled real.
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'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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So much TV is drawn out.
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Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.
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Anger is the poorest of counselors, and revenge is suicide.
