Elizabeth Berg Quotes
My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I feel perfectly willing to stay my threescore years and ten, if it be thought I need so much tuition from this planet; but it seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close. It may be terribly trying, but it will not be so very long, now. God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.
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I'm continuously playing this game of what's real and what's not real, and having to balance and judge and realize that there are things that carry real weight in the world and actually have power in them. And there are things that are just pointless, and you don't have to pay attention to those things.
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Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
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My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.
