Elizabeth Esty Quotes
Most of what I've proposed in Congress grew out of issues raised with me back here in Connecticut.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.
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In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition which is profoundly influenced by our social and cultural environments. Depression is a global crisis not only because it is common and universal, but because the vast majority of affected people suffer in silence or receive inappropriate care.
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My mother always wanted to give back.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound impact, seeing how tough it is for both of them and seeing how the roles change and how my mother has gone from being a daughter to being the mother.
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I don't really like to promote anything, but I will promote things I believe in and things that work.
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I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
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I am only interested in celebrating music.
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I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the promotion of the welfare of China, and an increase in her material prosperity without entanglements or creating embarrassment affecting the growth of her independent political power, and the preservation of her territorial integrity.
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I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?
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African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)
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Most of what I've proposed in Congress grew out of issues raised with me back here in Connecticut.
