Elizabeth Emken Quotes
When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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Sometimes I can't tell that someone is a selective asshole because they're so nice to me and the people around me that I don't realize it until someone else says, "You know, that person is an asshole." So I'll be fooled by selective assholes sometimes . . . lately.
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As long as white newspapers were unwilling or unable to attack 'anti-Negro' forces or to air the views of black reformers, there was a service black newspapers could provide.
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Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions and corporations.
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We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.
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I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them.
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When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.
