Elizabeth Flock Quotes
The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse.
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I believed I was invincible.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to tweet, 'Hey, I read your book!' - that, absolutely, I connect with that. But I also treat writing as solitary and keep it to myself as long as I can.
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So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
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And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.
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My career in racing started at a very young age in California.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse.
