Wendy Lesser Quotes
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.
Quotes to Explore
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I know what poverty is.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.
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I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.
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In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
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It all comes down to taking control of your life, education enables you to read, reading gives you power, the power to make decisions that you want to make.
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Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.
