Mark Lippert Quotes
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	When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.   
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	Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.   
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	To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.   
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	You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.   
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	What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.   
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	I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.   
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	When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.   
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	Only recently have I been introduced to the gym and heavy weightlifting and things like that. Before that, when I grew up, I just did a lot of gymnastics and dance. I had more of an athletic background, but nothing where I was in the gym or using any kind of weights.   
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	High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.   
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	Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.   
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	I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.   
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	I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.   
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	I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.   
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	I've known Bret Michaels forever.   
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	He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.   
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	The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.   
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	In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.   
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	I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.   
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	I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!   
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	I found great rewards in cooking a dish and feeding it to someone. It was a means of communicating. I was giving part of my talent or my gift and sharing it with somebody, making somebody happy. And it gave a lot back to me, and I wanted to do more and more.   
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	I wear what I feel and what makes me feel happy.   
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	I don't feel like the real, transcendental sound experiences I've had in my life have anything to do with intellect.   
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	Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.   
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	When you're going off to Iraq, your horizons become more short term.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					