Elizabeth Flock Quotes

Every Valentine's Day, I pretend I don't care. Like many of us, I say I don't want the flowers or chocolates or a homemade card. How cheesy. I pretend that it's over-the-top to want the person you like to make you a ridiculously nice dinner, or do some showy gesture, ala John Cusack with the boombox in 'Say Anything.'

Elizabeth Flock

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While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.

Jo Cox

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As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

Jessica Simpson

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I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

Jeremy Irons

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And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.

Meg Whitman

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Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?

Robert Kennedy

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Essentially, Robin Hood put a smackdown on the medieval equivalent of the IRS.

Steven Crowder

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I like involved projects.

Tori Amos

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I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

Robin Coste Lewis

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It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.

Robin Roberts

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In Saudi Arabia - recognized as one of the worst violators of women's rights - women outnumber men on university campuses and yet are treated like minors who need a male guardian's permission to do the most basic things.

Mona Eltahawy

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I always said if a man would have done half the records that I've done, we would know about it. But we don't know all the records I've done for other artists.

Missy Elliott

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