Elizabeth Esty Quotes
I'm a mom. That probably hinders sometimes and helps sometimes. To some people, that makes me more approachable.

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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'
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Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.
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I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation, I started pondering an unmarried future and wondered if I'd ever be able to hack being single again.
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I'm a mom. That probably hinders sometimes and helps sometimes. To some people, that makes me more approachable.