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Having gone through so many of the personal things I’ve gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don’t profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public’s imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
I don’t actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
I’m thrilled, I’m grateful, I’m blessed. I played for the world’s greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.
The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.
My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.
I don’t really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Politics is not about power.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.
The time has come – and must come – for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don’t make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.
I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you’re in the legal system like that, it’s always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
It’s hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be ‘Stupid Sally.’ Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don’t make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It’s no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence they’ve taken aerial shots. They’ve gotten my address and put it on the Internet.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
It is in Saudi Arabia’s best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
I don’t know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.