Elizabeth Esty Quotes

You are who you are, and in politics, if you stay who you are, you do better.

Elizabeth Esty

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• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • You
  • Talent
  • Just

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Love
  • Words

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Work
  • Reading

• To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Single
  • Sin
  • Reward

• What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Time
  • Country
  • Help

• Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Think
  • Helpful

• I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Think
  • Want
  • Details

• The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Control
  • Government
  • Budget

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Unique

• Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Done
  • Think

• Republicans can go fuck themselves!

  

  Rahm Emanuel

• How happy he who crowns in shades like these,A youth of labour with an age of ease.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Happy
  • Age

• My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.

  

  Nadia McCaffrey
  • War
  • Son
  • Lies

• With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn... With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding together and seeming coherent... Each presents unique challenges and opportunities.

  

  David B. Coe
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Worry

• As a designer and someone that likes getting my hands dirty, it's hard. It's a competition. I can't give too much away. One thing I could do was offer encouraging words.

  

  David Bromstad
  • Giving
  • Competition
  • Hands

• There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Maybe that's partly why I'm an actor, I'm a fairly empathetic, emotional person, so I get very, very involved when it's really, really great when I'm watching - so it takes me a second to click back into reality again.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Great
  • Why
  • Reality

• You are who you are, and in politics, if you stay who you are, you do better.

  

  Elizabeth Esty