Elizabeth Enright Quotes
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
Salman Rushdie -
I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
Hannah Storm -
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
Nathan Lane -
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu -
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
Ralph Nader -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
Fernand Leger -
When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra -
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
Octavia Spencer -
I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
Taraji P. Henson
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Does this country really exist?
Sacha Baron Cohen -
She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Ἐλαφρὸν ὅστις πημάτων ἔξω πόδαἔχει παραινεῖν νουθετεῖν τε τοὺς κακῶςπράσσοντας.
Aeschylus -
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
Jeanette Winterson -
It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.
Charles Bukowski -
My age has so little to do with my image of myself because at a certain point, the number just didn't fit how I felt. It has become irrelevant to me. I just don't feel like that number is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!
Christie Brinkley
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I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.
Charlie Ergen -
God bless nannies.
Laura Dern -
If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.
Zac Brown Band -
I think it must be hard being David. I get a certain level of attention but - I've seen it in action - he can't move for attention.
Billie Piper -
It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
Karin Fossum -
I loved the flash of jewels and the luster of satin. In those days women dressed.
Elizabeth Enright