Elizabeth Charles Quotes
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-- or both.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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Impulses are hard to come by these days.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
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I think I've established my own identity here at Brandeis.
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I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.
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To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-- or both.
