Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
Nadia Comaneci
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
Dakota Fanning
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
Harold Prince
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Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
Valentina Zelyaeva
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
Foster Friess
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
Jackie Chan
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You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
Larry Dixon
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
Landon Donovan
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It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
Xavier Rudd
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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
Immanuel Kant
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By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.
Samuel Johnson
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This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
Patrick Modiano
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When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.
Hans Zimmer
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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
Antonin Artaud
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The prediction of my disruption theory would be that Apple won't succeed with the iPhone. They've launched an innovation that the existing players in the industry are heavily motivated to beat: It's not truly disruptive. History speaks pretty loudly on that, that the probability of success is going to be limited.
Clayton M. Christensen
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Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.
Christo
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My favorite movie of all time is probably 'Apocalypse Now.'
Dominic Monaghan
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Chinua Achebe
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Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.
Euripides
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Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.
William Rees-Mogg
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The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works.
T. C. Boyle
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Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
Elizabeth Lesser