Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required it is this: fearlessness in your examination of life and death; Willingness to continually grow; and openness to the possibility that the ordinary is extraordinary, and that your joys and your sorrows have meaning and mystery.
Quotes to Explore
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, 'smoked salmon and Bach.' (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same.)
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The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.
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The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
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Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.
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If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.
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It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.
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My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.
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How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.
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When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar terms, who were just small teams making games out of passion.
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Among the radio astronomers of SETI - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - it's only sort-of a joke that the true hallmark of intelligent life is the creation of radio astronomy.
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I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.
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I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.
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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
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If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.
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I'm sexing raw dog without protection.
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Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required it is this: fearlessness in your examination of life and death; Willingness to continually grow; and openness to the possibility that the ordinary is extraordinary, and that your joys and your sorrows have meaning and mystery.
