Elizabeth Emken Quotes
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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Beyonce is very special. I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there with her.
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I'll be kicked out before I rust out.
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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.
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You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
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Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
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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.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
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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.
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'People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly.'
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I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
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She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.
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When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
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I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
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My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted.
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You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.
