Elizabeth Wein Quotes
Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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It is always your next move.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
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The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies.
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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
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Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'
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I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.
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I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find.
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The last thing I do before bed is think I should take my contacts out. Then I fall asleep.
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Gay marriage... I'm a traditionalist. I'm older than most people in the audience. I kind of like tradition, and it's always been a man and a woman. I'm thinking, 'I don't quite get it'.
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Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.
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Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
