Elizabeth Emken Quotes
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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Every actor has a different language. Every actor has their strengths and their challenges, and I try to help them and support them and help them through their challenges as best I can.
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It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.
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There is a profiteer when it comes to oil. 36 to 63 cents per gallon is swept off the top. And who profits from that? The government profits from it. And what does the government do with much of that money? It puts it into so-called 'alternative energy,' with so-called phony 'green jobs' that we're yet to see being produced.
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We need new energy back in Washington.
