Elise Stefanik Quotes
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!
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My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
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I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.
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Writing has to support itself.
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What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
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Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.
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I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
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You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you
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Hair got caught in the sunlight darling But I just wasted the day. I knew it would happen this way.
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Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.)
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It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.
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To honor the legacy of veterans and the democratic principles they fought for, I am glad that I introduced the Korean War Veterans Recognition Act which was enacted in 2009.
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I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.
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There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most somber, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.
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You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.
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To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.
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Things won't change unless we have new types of candidates.
