Elizabeth Flock Quotes
The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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I don't feel like songs should be hoarded. I don't feel like one's tainted if somebody else does it. That's the mark of artistry - take a song that's maybe even a really popular song and do it your own way. I think that's cool.
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What I am interested in are the philosophies of the future. That's what drives me.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.
