Elisabeth Shue Quotes
It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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War is over if you want it.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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What is unusual about the United States - and it's something that I have never gotten used to - is that Jews here, there are so many of them, and they are so important to the culture.
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
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One thing I've discovered is that people in the military have a sense of purpose. They feel useful, and everything is laid out in front of them. What their job is, is very clear.
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These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.
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The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.' The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human.
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It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
