Elizabeth Flock Quotes

Buckhannon, population 5,639, is a deeply conservative town and long has been. While coal is its past, oil and gas are its likely future. It's a town where guns are sold at yard sales, where Pentecostal churches are nearly as common as restaurants, and where distrust of Hillary Clinton is visceral and deep-seated.

Elizabeth Flock

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You have to know your trigger foods, and for me, it's sweet foods.

Maye Musk

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I didn't even apply. There was no warning.

Max Roach

WarningEvenApply

I ended up working on over 150 political campaigns in 42 states; over a third of those were for Republicans. I want to be clear about that. Approximately two-thirds were for Democrats, so, I worked on both sides of the aisle, across the United States.

Michael Avenatti

PoliticalWantSidesOverBoth Sides

'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remake could have come from video games.

Michael De Luca

Video GamesGamesOriginalComeBeen

I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20.

Rupi Kaur

ConfidenceThinkSelf-EsteemFinally

The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized around power structures. Because I am someone who thrives on delineating context, seeing up close the inner workings of the museum was not wasted on me.

Michelle Grabner

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It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

NatureStrengthCharacterScience

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

Judith Leiber

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The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

AchievementPrideMeaningValues

When I went to auditions, if I didn't know the lines, I wasn't getting the job. If I knew my lines, if I knew what I was supposed to be doing, I got the job. And it was always like that - if I'm working hard, I get the result that I'm looking for.

Shameik Moore

JobLookingDoingResultKnowHard

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

Thomas Langmann

BetterGamblingSuicideUniqueFilm

On 'Love Actually,' I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my hair. And it was brilliant working with David Tennant on 'Doctor Who.'

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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