Elizabeth Emken Quotes
I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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To survive is to win.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.
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He's just really unlikely as a hero - which makes him so brilliant, I think, because he's like this mad professor.
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For the most part, yeah, I'm happy with my body, but there are days when I'm like, 'Ugh! Really? Why is it so hard to fit into my jeans?' That's when I say to myself, 'I look this way because I'm supposed to. If we all looked the same, we'd be boring.'
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The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.
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And the word spread of Billy the Kid.
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I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.
