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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I give my heart for this sport. I give my leg for this sport. I give my time for my family for this sport.
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You learn pretty quickly: if you fall in love with your edit, you're bound to be heartbroken because it will all be re-cut.
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Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.
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Ex-members, even those with righteous complaints, tend to reconstruct their experiences — ambiguous situations at worst — into totally negative encounters. They tend to demonize the leaders and turn the members into zombielike followers. Harmless comments are recast into sinister threats, group jargon into conspirational fantasies.
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Winning a major, that's what everybody wants to do, and I worked my whole life to do it. And to realize that, it's incredible.
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I'm an extrovert.
