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 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

• Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

  

  Edward Bond
  • World
  • Art
  • Hope

• At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains

• When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

  

  Daniella Alonso
  • Great
  • School

• There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Nonviolence
  • Gaining

• One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Business
  • Reason

• Even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day, if your heart is not in accord with it, then even if you think you are on a good path, from the point of view of the straight and true, this is not a genuine path. If you do not pursue a genuine path to its consummation, then a little bit of crookedness in the mind will later turn into a major warp. Reflect on this.

  

  Miyamoto Musashi
  • Thinking
  • Genuine
  • Chosen

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

  

  Elizabeth Esty