Elizabeth Esty Quotes

Brownfields cleanups have been treated like capital investments in the tax laws, and they really are repairs and should be taxed as such.

Elizabeth Esty

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• I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • History
  • Mother

• I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

  

  Felicia Day
  • America
  • History
  • Fact

• You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Person
  • Needs

• Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Spring
  • Company
  • Storm

• I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Hated

• I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Believe
  • Incredible

• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Energy
  • Write

• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Question
  • Students
  • Worship

• His ignorance is encyclopedic.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Ignorance
  • His

• We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • World
  • Character
  • Impact

• I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Know
  • Wife
  • Beginning

• History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Wisdom
  • Differences

• I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Mirror

• As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Writing
  • College
  • Kid

• With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• The first choice for me is what's going to make me stretch out in my craft?

  

  Kim Fields

• Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

  

  Bruce Greenwood
  • Fun
  • Couple

• Magic happens, see. It's just like on those bumper stickers, the ones that say, 'Miracles Happen', or 'Jesus Happens'. I never really took those too seriously. I mean, they're bumper stickers. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. Miracles? Right. Jesus? Maybe. But magic?

  

  Kathi Appelt
  • Thinking
  • Jesus
  • Magic

• For prayers to be efficacious, they must be in harmony with the plan of heaven. The prayer of faith bears fruit when such harmony exists, and this harmony exists when prayers are inspired by the Holy Spirit.

  

  Keith B. McMullin
  • Heaven
  • Prayer
  • Inspired

• Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

  

  David Bronstein
  • Reality
  • Dreams
  • Chess

• Brownfields cleanups have been treated like capital investments in the tax laws, and they really are repairs and should be taxed as such.

  

  Elizabeth Esty