Elizabeth May Quotes
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there.
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The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
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It’s said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.
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When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.
