Elizabeth May Quotes
When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.
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I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
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You can give your own intuitive qualities a way to surface by following your heart.
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I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; It's just so good for the baby and good for yourself.
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There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
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It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.
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In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body.
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Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
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Years teach us more than books.
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Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.
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When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.
