Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Quotes
I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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My best friend is my husband.
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A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.
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Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
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In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.
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I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.
