Elizabeth Wein Quotes

Equality comes in different forms, and it is a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Wein

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• Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Band
  • Like

• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Style

• But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • True
  • Attention
  • Young

• Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Looking
  • Going

• I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Slice

• I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Jewish
  • Bar
  • I Was Raised

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

  

  Parker Young
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Believe
  • Business
  • City

• When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Great
  • Writing
  • American

• From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Education
  • Training

• Don't talk it, walk it.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica

• So wrote Pater, calling an art-for-art's sake muezzin to the faithful from the topmost turret of the ivory tower.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Art

• Barbados: 'A proper bum island this Barbados....It's a unique sort of scenery, very ugly, & I didn't take much to the coloured population, who are revolting.' (26-27 March 1920)

  

  Edward VIII
  • Unique
  • Ugly
  • March

• I'm a big fan of country.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Country

• I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.

  

  Ken Liu

• During the day I don't wear much makeup.

  

  Denise Richards
  • Makeup

• Fast learners win.

  

  Eric Schmidt

• Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• I was in line at a store and there was a little girl, she was standing in line next to me and some other girls had come up to me and recognized me from 'Pretty Little Liars.' When they walked away, this girl was staring at me, and her eyes got so big, and she started crying. It was, like, the cutest thing.

  

  Bianca Lawson
  • Girl
  • Eyes
  • Crying

• It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Creating
  • Israel
  • Remarkable

• Equality comes in different forms, and it is a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Girl
  • Equality
  • Ethiopia