Elizabeth Berg Quotes
I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
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But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
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I'm an old guy. I don't hustle and I don't bustle. So sometimes you're behind, but that's okay. Your peace of mind is more important. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age. They could have enjoyed life.
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It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.
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I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.
