Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
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You're not a slave to those test audiences.
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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
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I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
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I'll never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! I've had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers.
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Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.
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At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.
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I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
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When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the journey becomes kind of automated. There is an aliveness that comes with having to puzzle out directions for yourself. And you have to ask other people for help, which creates opportunity for social connection.
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I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.
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War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.
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In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.
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With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.
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White wing'd angels meet the child On the vestibule of life.
