Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Quotes
The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a greater impact.
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Broadway is really my life.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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I dreamed big. So it's so great to be living my own dream. I'm working in an industry that I want to work in, and I'm doing something that I love every day. So I feel really lucky to have had so many opportunities.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.
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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
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It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.
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I never invite idiots to my house.
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Working on domestic violence cases was an eye-opening experience that made me passionate to do everything possible to support and protect victims and prosecute abusers.
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
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I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'
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Most people don't realize how little it takes to get a horse to move.
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The network made me join Twitter. I am very scared of social media, and I don't know how to use it, so it's kind of trial and error.
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The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a greater impact.
