Elizabeth Berg Quotes

I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

Elizabeth Berg

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• I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Success
  • Road

• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Up
  • American
  • Political

• I think there's no greater healing power than music.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Music
  • Power
  • Healing

• My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Death
  • Singing
  • Creative

• You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Grateful

• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Family
  • Small
  • Breakfast

• The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Job
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Technology
  • Will

• Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Pleasures

• I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Myself
  • Hell
  • Being Myself

• People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Nature

• I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Same

• At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Up
  • Military
  • End

• I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Unity

• The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Stop
  • Wife

• We know in order to get where we want to be and do what we want to be doing, sometimes we have to do what we don't feel like doing. It takes hard work, and the band name is a constant reminder of that.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Work
  • Band

• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  

  Sallust
  • War
  • Risk
  • Battle

• My husband and I met on OKCupid. We went out on our little coffee date, and I knew right away he was my husband. He's a handsome, smarty-pants architect from Tokyo. On our first date, I said, 'I wake up like this. I'm Pollyanna Sunshine, and I'm not for everyone'.

  

  Geneva Carr
  • Up
  • Husband
  • Coffee

• I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Wife
  • Crazy
  • Farmer