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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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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What I want to say is that nobody is unbeatable. There's a kid out there who probably wants to beat me. I train hard and try to be the best that I can be, but I don't disrespect my opponents. I am not disillusioned, either.
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I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
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I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
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There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.
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Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
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Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.
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A régime Nazism which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.
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The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.
