Elizabeth Emken Quotes

I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is we're trying to do for families.

Elizabeth Emken

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• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Joy
  • Socks

• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• I'm blind without my glasses.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Blind
  • Without
  • Glasses

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • House
  • Go
  • Out

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Think
  • Stop

• I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Start

• If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Players
  • Rather
  • Tricky

• I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Great
  • Truth

• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Enthusiasm
  • Common Sense

• I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • End
  • Moment
  • Him

• My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Hurt

• Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • You
  • City
  • Plan

• I grew up in Russia. We had a telephone line, but a load of our neighbours didn't. It became a shared resource for the whole apartment complex. People would come and knock on the door and ask to call their family in another city.

  

  Jan Koum
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.

  

  Charlotte Lamb
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

  

  Alva Noto
  • Decision

• I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is we're trying to do for families.

  

  Elizabeth Emken
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Party