Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Quotes

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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• Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Speak
  • Succeed

• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • True
  • Patriotism
  • Rebellion

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• 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.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Violence

• 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.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• I have so many friends and obligations, and I want to go out and support people. But we eat at home.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • People
  • Home
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• 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.'

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Technology

• 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.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Door

• Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

  

  Dan Millman
  • World
  • Love
  • Happy

• I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Thought
  • Racism

• 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.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Together
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Gary Gygax

• Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Bitter

• 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.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • Real
  • May

• Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Live

• Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

  

  Alistair Darling
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Chad le Clos
  • Disrespect

• Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
  • World
  • Real

• It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.

  

  Jon Tenney
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• A lot of times, what people see is what they hear or what's on your Instagram.

  

  Evan Ross
  • People
  • See
  • Instagram

• The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

  

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Joke