Susan Lieberman Quotes
By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
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Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.
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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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It takes two to get one in trouble.
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Globalisation for a startup is exciting; you have to learn so fast about the different cultures of the world.
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A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
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We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
