Elena Roger Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.
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You have enough people against you... be for yourself.
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I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.
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Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
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I don't worry too much about people hating or insulting me. I'm a sinful man, and I've made a lot of mistakes. People have reason to hate me.
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I hate, hate Times Square!
