Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Always
  • Marriage
  • Issue

• I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Life
  • Best
  • Short

• I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Live
  • Song
  • Name

• When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• I am unboreable in the great outdoors.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Outdoors
  • Unboreable

• Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Career
  • Early

• The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Planning
  • Meeting
  • Hood

• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Voice
  • Individual
  • Choir

• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Well
  • Sexuality

• I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Powerful
  • Moment
  • Stand

• My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • You
  • Stop
  • Hair

• In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Women
  • Intelligence

• Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Heart
  • Winning
  • Place

• What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Life
  • Business
  • Peace

• I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Political
  • Without

• There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

  

  William Boyd
  • Life

• Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Kind
  • Mass

• I thought I would turn the corner when I didn't play. It wasn't feeling that bad when I'd walk up stairs, so I thought it was getting better. Once I took one step out of the batter's box trying for a double, I couldn't do it. I don't have time to be waiting.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I think the first thing I consider is whether I like the script. Once that is done, the next thing I look for is my part in the movie. Many a times you come across good offers, but the part they are offering might not be challenging. So, I don't take up that film.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Rules
  • Listen
  • Conversational