Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
I'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a new initiative, and it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.

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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.
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It's amazing that we have lead females on television and a couple of them over 40. Thank you very much. And being beautiful and strong and sexy and everything that you hope for.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.
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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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I'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a new initiative, and it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.