Elizabeth Esty Quotes
We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
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My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.
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Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.
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We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.