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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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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If you're right, and nobody really cares what’s out there, I wonder whether we’re even worth saving.
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We’re from Germany but we grew up with English and American music which was such a strong inspiration for the young band. Very early on, in the Seventies, we went to England and France, to Japan and America, we toured and then became an international band. I think our music was never German, it’s always had this Anglo-American influence – we never tried to be a German band! We are Germans, yes, but not in our music. When we grew up, there was schlager music, this pop music kind of thing.
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In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.
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Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.
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Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away.
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You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.
