Elizabeth Esty Quotes
We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.
Quotes to Explore
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
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I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
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The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman's pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, 'It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.'
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
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So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.
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To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
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In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
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The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
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We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!
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Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.
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When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
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I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.
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There is a child in all of us.
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We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.
