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.

Elizabeth Wein

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• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Species
  • Variety

• 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.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• Managers are the most creative people in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • World
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• 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.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Me
  • Child
  • Acting

• When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Back
  • Hit
  • Attacked

• 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.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Time
  • Real
  • Political

• I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

  

  Edmund White
  • Money
  • Always
  • Ambitious

• I can give you a definite perhaps.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Give
  • I Can

• 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.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • She
  • You
  • Confidence

• Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Care
  • Animal

• 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.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Movie
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Work
  • Road
  • Name

• 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.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • People
  • Music
  • Standing

• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Passion
  • Envious
  • Rust

• No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Crime
  • Vulgar

• One should judge the deeds and not the declarations. We have to wait and see if the new Cabinet will, in fact, be sworn in and how it will act, taking into account Arafat's staunch resistance to it and his capacity to undermine any process of reform.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Judge
  • Reform
  • Declarations

• However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

  

  Muriel Rukeyser
  • Love
  • Emotion
  • Confused

• I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Career
  • Passion
  • Gift

• I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover.

  

  Joyce DeWitt
  • Gift
  • Discover
  • Luxury

• We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Character
  • Quality
  • Housing

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Pleasure
  • Gift
  • I Remember