Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
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The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy.
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Master, Master of Light, Whose eye dwells in the seeking fingers of the blind, You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration.
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Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
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I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
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I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.
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Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.
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It really helps me to get into the character of the record when I have a designated look. It just really simplifies things for me.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.
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When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.
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People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realise.
