Elizabeth Wein Quotes
For the pleasure of giving, because what's the point of just having? If I give a thing, I remember how happy we both were when I made the gift.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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He is called the horse.
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I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.
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We dropped two bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the name of the plane that delivered the weapons was the Enola Gay. Do you know why? Because we wanted them to know that they were about to get boned in the ass.
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For the pleasure of giving, because what's the point of just having? If I give a thing, I remember how happy we both were when I made the gift.
