Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.
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A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
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You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
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Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
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I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
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My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
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I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
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There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
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It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.
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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to these authors' experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.
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What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
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Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
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I hope I have important things to say.
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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
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If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.