Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

Elizabeth Edwards

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• I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Waiting
  • Would

• I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

  

  Larry King
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Movies

• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Like
  • One Thing

• Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Art
  • Class
  • Other

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Think
  • Words

• The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Moving
  • Wit
  • Moving On

• For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Person
  • Learn

• I'm a very independent woman.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Woman
  • Independent
  • Independent Woman

• The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • American
  • Proud

• Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Up
  • Director

• I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Think
  • Achievement

• No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Short

• You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Artist
  • Body
  • Yourself

• It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Find
  • Successful
  • Someone

• Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Living

• UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Life
  • Done
  • My Life

• I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Sound
  • Pool
  • Devices

• That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.

  

  Arthur Japin
  • Matter
  • See
  • Thing

• Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

  

  Curt Sachs
  • Tango
  • Qualities
  • Dance Talents

• The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Enemy

• Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Matter
  • Principles
  • Compromise