Elizabeth Berg Quotes
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Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
Gail Collins -
I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
Nathan Fillion -
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
R. Kelly -
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
Vanessa Carlton
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
Ramez Naam -
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus -
For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
Randeep Hooda -
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
Taufik Hidayat
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
Karl Liebknecht -
As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
Vanessa Bayer -
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov -
Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
Yusuf Hamied -
I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
Taylor Swift -
I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
Dan Shechtman
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
Karen Elson -
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
Ahmet Zappa -
It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.
Nirmala Srivastava -
Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.
Eileen Myles -
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin -
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.
Elizabeth Berg