Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.
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I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
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In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.
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I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.
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I've tried to eat little shrubs before. We were on an unsupported 20-plus day traverse, following the migration of endangered antelope across the Chang Tang Plateau. We were like, 'Oh, this is what they ate; we should try it.'
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I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
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If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.
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I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
