Mark Lippert Quotes
I'm like a point guard. Barack is about ideas and questions, and I don't have all the answers. He trusts me to pass the ball to others to give him points of view.

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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
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I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.
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I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
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3) Stories to end all stories on a given topic, don't.
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Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor—they never overlap, do they?See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?Losing weight and looking like the poor.
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Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
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My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.
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Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.
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Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.
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I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.
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If we cannot find 'patient zero' then it means the virus is even more ubiquitous than we thought.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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I'm like a point guard. Barack is about ideas and questions, and I don't have all the answers. He trusts me to pass the ball to others to give him points of view.