Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith

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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.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Change
  • Christian
  • Angry

• 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.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Thought
  • Humor
  • Tough

• I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Like
  • Pieces
  • Sell

• 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.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Think
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Independent
  • Environmental

• 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.

  

  Edith Head
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Different

• At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.

  

  Iman
  • Day
  • End
  • Self-Esteem

• Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Religious
  • Need

• Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Health
  • Boundaries
  • Over

• I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Remember
  • War

• I want to become more famous, even more famous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Want
  • Famous
  • More

• 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.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Commitment

• 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.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Decision

• Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

  

  Halsey
  • Desperate
  • Bisexual
  • Bipolar

• Everybody should get married - once. I was 25.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Married
  • Once
  • Get Married

• I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Records
  • Hit

• Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Space
  • Always
  • Travel

• I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Words
  • Action
  • inspirational

• I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Play
  • Style
  • New York

• I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Different
  • Small

• In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Road
  • Winter
  • Europe

• Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Identity
  • Europe
  • Leading Role

• Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

  

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith
  • Europe
  • Spain