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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• 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

• Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.

  

  John Osborne
  • Night

• My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Country
  • Pretty

• In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

  

  Christopher Wren
  • Great
  • Respect

• And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Wise

• ... my anxiety is not that this community's autonomy would be usurped by Peking, but that it could be given away bit by bit by some people in Hong Kong.

  

  Chris Patten
  • People
  • Community
  • Anxiety

• 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