Elizabeth Emken Quotes
I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.
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Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
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I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.
