Elizabeth Emken Quotes

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

Elizabeth Emken

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• This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Great
  • Political
  • Being

• I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • Want
  • Russia

• Beyonce is very special. I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there with her.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Special
  • Her
  • Beyonce

• I'll be kicked out before I rust out.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Before
  • Out
  • Rust

• Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Dish
  • Vegetable
  • Gujarat

• You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Change
  • Yourself
  • Paths

• When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Politics
  • Kings
  • Holding

• I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Kind
  • TV
  • While

• Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Boxing
  • Big
  • Then

• I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • Reading

• There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Argument

• I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more production. I think that's what creates a demand and keeps an economy moving.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Moving
  • Look
  • Looking

• I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Happiness
  • Moment

• I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it. And there, you can say, life began to change for me.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Life
  • Family
  • Change

• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Life
  • Real
  • Love

• Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Power
  • Song

• We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Men
  • Day
  • Rock

• 'People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly.'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Done
  • Ugly

• I feel very proud of everyone I've worked with on 'SpongeBob' because they're all brilliant artists working at the top of their game to make something really special, and I think audiences feel that.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Game
  • Proud
  • Audiences

• A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

  

  Stewart Brand
  • Start
  • Building
  • Finish

• Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • May

• FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. I will fail. We all will. And having failed, and gotten back up, and failed again, taught me that I can survive failure. This is a downfall in most modern stories: the hero always wins. Because while this story is inspiring, it’s also false. In reality, not everyone wins. It’s 100% true that no one wills all the time, and we expect that—every hero must fall at least once. But it’s also 100% true that some people never win at all, and that’s the thing we try so hard to ignore behind the pretty stories. I could spend the rest of my life trying to be a prima ballerina, and it would not happen. I would fail at that for the rest of my life. FAILURE TEACHES US WHO WE ARE. Because even though I know I would fail forever at being a prima ballerina, I also know that I am not someone who should be a prima ballerina. It’s not who I am, it’s not what I want. Of course I would fail at it.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Failure
  • Stories
  • Hero

• You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

  

  Elizabeth Emken