David Lichtenstein Quotes
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of your hair or your eyes. Well, I dye my hair, so maybe that's not the best example. But your eyes!
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I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.
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I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
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People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.
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You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.
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Supermodels, like we once were, don't exist any more.
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Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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He is dead, and my hatred has died with him.
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To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Tahoe is a magical place full of positive energy, beautiful mountains, and lakes all around. It's home for me and feels so good to be there.
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I think too many of the politicians in Washington have forgotten simple ideals like solving problems and helping neighbors. The Washington game is more about scoring points or sticking it to the other guy.
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I'm an extrovert.
