Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.
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I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
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Abraham Lincoln never denigrated, never scapegoated, never finger-pointed. And he had reason to.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
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I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.
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When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.
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Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.
