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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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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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 wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
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Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
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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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I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
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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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My problem is that I am perhaps too much of a democrat for this time of the country's life. If you need a dictator, then go to the Afghan people. Let them elect a dictator. I am not one of those.
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The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
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It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?
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Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.
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White wing'd angels meet the child On the vestibule of life.
