Elizabeth Hay Quotes
Who's to say we can't have many loves and many identities? we can hold more in our heads than we think.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.
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I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Who's to say we can't have many loves and many identities? we can hold more in our heads than we think.
