Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Quotes
The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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I have so many friends and obligations, and I want to go out and support people. But we eat at home.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
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I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
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I think you're the least fucked-up person I've ever met,And that may be as close to the real thing as I'm ever gonna get.
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Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.
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Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
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You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.
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I could play a lot of things. And it's hard for people and logically hard and understandably hard for people to think of me for certain roles.
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When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
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I find it hard to believe that the commission will be able to continue to fully serve its mission in the face of such budget cuts.
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The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.
