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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• People tell me I need an assistant, but I don't want one.

  

  David Karp
  • People

• The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.

  

  Andrew Clements
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Words

• Before I changed my diet, every time I ate, my torso would feel burning hot, and the areas around my lymph nodes would really ache.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Time

• To me, the greatest asset of the Fed is the people. We have a tremendously dedicated staff... They feel proud to work for the Fed because this is such a competent, professional and well-respected organization.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • People
  • Work
  • Proud

• If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don't keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure you use encryption. If you lose your computer, your bitcoins are lost forever.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • Lost
  • Forever

• If I could eat without gaining weight or getting unhealthy, I would eat all the time.

  

  Corey Johnson
  • Time

• I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

  

  Eric Bana
  • People

• I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Learning

• The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

  

  Albert Camus
  • World
  • Men

• When you start feeling the baby kick, you realize there's a person inside, and that pregnancy is very different from having a person you're responsible for for the rest of your life. I don't know what I'm doing, but then I have to remind myself no parent does, right?

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Life
  • Different
  • Feeling

• 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