Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Control
  • Like
  • Difference

• In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Society
  • Respect
  • End

• We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Want
  • Society
  • Environment

• I love cycling.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Cycling

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Political
  • Me
  • Doing

• Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Problems

• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Mask
  • Citizenship

• Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hate

• I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
  • Rest
  • Language
  • Yourself

• It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Child

• The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Action
  • Vision
  • Strategy

• It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Lost

• It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.

  

  Sam Graves
  • President
  • Jobs
  • Create

• With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Way
  • Wall
  • Street

• I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Focus
  • Media
  • Gossip

• This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Real
  • Done
  • Job

• They bring my music to life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Music

• A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was struck by how good looking he was, in that accidental, doesn't-even-know-it kind of way. Which only made it worse. Or better. Or whatever. "Yup", he said, as if there'd been any doubt, "you're in there, all right." "I was warned, too,"I told him, as he stood up. "I just saw that sculpture, and I got distracted." "The sculpture?" He looked at it, then at me. "Oh, right. Because you know it.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Kind
  • Doubt
  • Said

• In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Woman

• It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.

  

  John Singleton
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• Our need will be the real creator.

  

  Plato
  • Real
  • Need
  • Creator

• Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Friend
  • Teacher
  • Need