Elizabeth Berg Quotes
It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I can only control what I can control.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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I'm a political conservative.
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My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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Certain struggles never end.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.
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If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.
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We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.
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Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.
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It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
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Culture is the way for a country to know itself.
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It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.
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It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
