Elaine Sciolino Quotes
The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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A hard man is good to find.
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We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.
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One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
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I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
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I talked to him before the game, and I asked him why in some games he is not aggressive, and some games he is. He gave me an excuse, and I didn't buy it. Andre is not selfish at all, but he has to be selfish in that sense, to try and get shots up, because we need him to.
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I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.
