Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

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• A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Person
  • Relationships

• I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Remember
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • You
  • Stop
  • Hair

• I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Lady
  • Fat

• It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • War
  • Happen
  • Things Happen

• The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Value
  • Artist

• In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Fierce

• For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Suffering
  • Sin

• I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Think
  • Dating

• We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God

• I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Party
  • Tea

• Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Responsibility

• Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

  

  Marilyn Nelson
  • Believe

• I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Life
  • Home
  • Book

• A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Great
  • Moral

• I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am - father, husband, actor, musician.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Husband

• In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Community
  • Security
  • Cost

• The lesson is the same as it always has been to the HIV/AIDS community: embrace and celebrate the progress while not letting up the pressure until there is a cure.

  

  David Mixner
  • Up
  • Community
  • Progress

• My people are still poor. They're still working class. All of the characters that I write about are inspired by the community that I'm from.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Community
  • Inspired

• I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Community
  • Holds