Elisabeth Shue Quotes
I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.
Quotes to Explore
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.
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Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.
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I can tell everything about a restaurant through their mussels. You have to work so hard to keep them perfect.
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All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.
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Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.
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I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.
