Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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I'm a real people-pleaser.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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You may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.
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There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
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The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.
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There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence
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I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.
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I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
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The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I can find out something about myself. Writers have this narcissistic obsession about how we got to be who we are. I have to understand my ancestors - my father, his mother and her mother - to understand who I am. It all leads back to the narcissistic pleasure of discovering yourself.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.
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We are all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear.
