Elizabeth Scott Quotes

You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can.

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• For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Society

• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Depression

• I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Wear
  • Did
  • Van

• I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • American
  • You
  • Care

• The movie business is a big gamble.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Big

• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Change
  • Single

• In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Help
  • Small
  • City

• Language usage always has a political context.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Political
  • Always
  • Language

• If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Culture
  • Amazing
  • Bond

• If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Different
  • Money
  • Want

• I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Great
  • Single
  • Fight

• A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Stock
  • Performance
  • Exploring

• I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Man
  • Wonder
  • Dreams

• We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • High
  • Education
  • California

• Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Party
  • Years
  • Trump

• I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Up
  • High
  • Mom

• People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Free
  • Say

• Picture by picture, these criminals are being identified and arrested, and we will not let any phony concerns about human rights get in the way of the publication of these pictures and the arrest of these individuals.

  

  David Cameron
  • Picture

• I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Childhood

• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Country
  • Help
  • Decision

• I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Church
  • Injustice
  • Bride Of Christ

• However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Believe
  • Fight
  • Right

• You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Right
  • No Matter