Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Quotes
Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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I guess music is very global.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
Garry Kasparov -
The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.
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P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight...
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'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
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I wish reporters were more in tune to the difference between the Asian experience and the Asian-American experience. I think often they lump the two together and think that when I talk about Asian-American narratives that they can cite 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' or 'Mulan' as proof of concept when it's a different experience.
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Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence.
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To try to prey on athletes' livelihoods while one is going through a tough time is embarrassing to me.
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I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.
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I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.
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I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be in.
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The Dodd Bill does very little to reduce financial risks. What it will do is make Wall Street even more the servant of bureaucrats in Washington and the political party in power. That is not in the best interests of the American people.
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Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.
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I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.
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I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
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Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.
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So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
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Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.
