Elizabeth May Quotes
I knew I had an old, cold, drafty house, ... But what they told me is where I made investments weren't my best investments.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.
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They that govern the most make the least noise.
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For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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There was a time when I was young and unemployed, struggling to start my career. During my A-Levels, I was hit by a car, which shattered my bones and left me confined to my bedroom for a year. Weirdly, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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I knew I had an old, cold, drafty house, ... But what they told me is where I made investments weren't my best investments.
