Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• Fixation

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• The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Democracy
  • Road

• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • High
  • Myself

• I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Past
  • Religion

• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Animals
  • Domestic
  • Unconditional

• Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Me
  • Say
  • Genes

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Going
  • Debt
  • Ceiling

• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • College
  • Young
  • Fans

• Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Steel

• Hearing the blues changed my life.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Blues

• This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Air

• That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Money

• Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Music

• I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker

• I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Why
  • English

• You can't value others until you value yourself.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Value

• The second thing we have to do is to make sure that all of us think about how we approach our elections and our democracy not only to secure them from vote tampering, but also to make sure that we understand when propaganda is being churned through the system.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Election

• If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

  

  John Churton Collins

• The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrages, anti-carbon-tax, and anti-nuclear.

  

  David J. C. MacKay
  • Energy
  • Emotional
  • Wind

• I'm world champion, so if I'm not ready for another fighter at 154, I don't deserve to be world champion. That's the way I look at it and what I firmly believe.

  

  Liam Smith
  • World
  • Believe
  • Champion

• The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Anxiety
  • Liberating
  • Fixation