Elizabeth Emken Quotes

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

Elizabeth Emken

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• There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Business
  • Never
  • Brand

• There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Power

• The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Long
  • Foundation

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Up
  • Good
  • Cool

• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
  • You
  • Heard
  • Both

• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • True
  • Patriotism
  • Rebellion

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Life
  • Idea

• If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • You

• I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Good
  • Today
  • Day

• To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Different
  • America

• You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Door

• What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Cinema
  • Curious

• Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Animal

• I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Favorite

• The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Problem
  • Answer
  • Principle

• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Dream
  • You
  • Motivational

• In many situations today, you can make far more than the spread by holding onto the acquirer's stock after the transaction is completed.

  

  John Paulson
  • Today
  • Stock

• My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Singing

• The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Time
  • Business

• We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Death
  • Earth
  • Fear

• In 'A Chosen Few,' I spent hours and hours listening to the pain of people of who had survived wondering why they survived and what their life means and what right do they have to survive.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

  

  Elizabeth Emken
  • Son
  • Autism