Elizabeth Cook Quotes
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I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.
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I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.'
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I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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It's not my liking for guns, what about the NRA? We all have the rights to bear arms, I have that, I have that same right as you do. Just because I'm black doesn't mean I shouldn't have a gun; I legally own guns.
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The media has their own agenda.
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We can't have someone in the Oval Office who doesn't understand the meaning of the word 'confidential' or 'classified'.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.
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I have no affectation when I speak.
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.’ W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951
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The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
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The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
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What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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I have a nihilistic attitude so it's like, the new gay... it's popular.
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The past never has anything new to say, so just hang up.
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This state of independence shall be!
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My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm of the sentences, in the shifting tones and the selection of details, in the comedy, the sadness, and the confusion. For the space of an essay, I'm the air you breathe, everywhere and nowhere. With a personal essay, I don't think you'd want it any other way. You ought to have the sense of an encounter, the impression of having met someone. In my essays, for better or worse, that someone is me.
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Wole SoyinkaMy horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
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We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we strive to see all of these groups united, hand-in-hand, in opposition to the plundering and privileged minority that constitutes the rulers of the State.
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You can have it all, but not all at once.
