Elizabeth Marie Pope Quotes
I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
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When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.
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I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
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If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.
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When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
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As for being AIDS infested, I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested.
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True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.
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But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.
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Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three.
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As far as making people feel less depressed, that, in and of itself, is a political act.
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I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.
