Elizabeth May Quotes
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Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.
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I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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Civilisational triumph is thus not a zero-sum enterprise that favours one geo-cultural domain over another.
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Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.
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I am uncomfortable with Sarah Palin. I have nothing against her. I'll say she's a very talented woman. Yet I think she owes John McCain her gratitude and loyalty.
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I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.
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I think I was a nomad in another life.
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My life is so much better with lupus because I know that stress and too much junk food will literally put me in hospital.
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The opening solo on 'Once in Royal David's City' is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year.
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If many things in the past have gone wrong in the lives of men and in the lives of their communities, it is because both small- and large-scale activities were blundered into without any thought or vision of universal planning.
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One of the beautiful things about a movement is that there are many strategies and many tactics contained within it. Not every participant in a movement is required to do exactly the same things.
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Clique Maintenance: The need of one generation to see the generation following it as deficient so as to bolster its own collective ego: Kids today do nothing. They’re so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.
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The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
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There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.
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To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
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Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.
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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.
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Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.
