Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
Harold Pinter -
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust -
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler -
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
Olympia Snowe -
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
Orson F. Whitney -
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
Pamela Meyer -
It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
Randy West -
With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
Olivia DeJonge -
My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
Larisa Oleynik -
I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
Farooq Abdullah
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And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
Karl Rove -
Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
Larry Niven -
In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
Brunello Cucinelli -
Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
Lydia Lunch -
U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'
Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins -
I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.
Jacob K. Javits
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A movie has to get good reviews, high grosses - it has to beat expectations. The same thing with television and the ratings. But being curious isn't like that. It's not a public thing. It's private, and the test is a private one. You have to be on your toes.
Brian Grazer -
We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.
Frank Abagnale -
So many large movies come to you with a huge marketing campaign and it's like you have to see this movie this weekend, otherwise you'll be culturally bankrupt and can't converse with your friends.
Joe Cornish -
Yes, I need to be fed but the need to be loved by friends has been as important to me than any lover I've had all my life. This is part of the reasons that my lovers don't stay because they are jealous of how much I care about my friends.
Nan Goldin -
Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.
Rabih Alameddine -
We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
Elizabeth Lesser