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.

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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

• The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• 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

• If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • Trying
  • Responsibility
  • Mean

• I'm an artist, and expressing myself in a sexual way, no matter how that changes throughout the years, is something that has always come naturally to me. At this point of my life, I'm 32 and I feel sexier than ever because you know what you want.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Want
  • Way

• Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem that is rapidly growing and it will take all of us to take action before we see results.

  

  Will Young
  • People
  • Action
  • Quality

• 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