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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It's a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.
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The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.
