Elizabeth Berkley Quotes
No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
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Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.
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I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is.
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McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.
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No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.
