Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.
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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
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Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.
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It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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I went over to the Sargent, said, 'Sargent, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sitting here on the bench, I mean I'm sitting here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug.'
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From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'
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I want to figure out how we put California and America back on track - how we bridge this partisan divide that is so polarizing.
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I don’t want to torture anything. … it’s about trying to live a life where I’m not contributing to the cruelty in the world. … While I am on this planet, I want everyone I meet to know that I am grateful they are here.
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God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
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Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.
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As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.
