Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes
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Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.
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The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
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Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
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Everybody should get married - once. I was 25.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.
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Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. Theyve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.
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Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.
