Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
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Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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I told myself that if I went to Compton High, and I made something out of the school, it would mean something to me later down the line because I started everything. And future kids would say, 'DeMar made it here; why can't I?' I wanted to stay home.
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The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
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What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.
