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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Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it's about how do we steer it.
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My early comics are really reflective of being kind of a befuddled, single loser in the Bay Area, and I think having kids has been by far the most profound impact on me as a person and as an artist.
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The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.
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Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people - the extended family - the other people within my community, my cultures: my teachers and the other people I call Auntie, Uncle, Godfather, Godbrother, whatever. These are people who pulled you in and made you part of their lives and their homes.
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People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realise.
