Elizabeth Wein Quotes
The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
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On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.
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A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
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No great man is ever born too soon or too late.
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Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.
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In contrast, EMDR, as well as the treatments discussed in subsequent chapters—internal family systems, yoga, neurofeedback, psychomotor therapy, and theater—focus not only on regulating the intense memories activated by trauma but also on restoring a sense of agency, engagement, and commitment through ownership of body and mind.
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We are going to fight this vigorously in defense of a state preemption law that has served Washington citizens well for more than three decades.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.
