Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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When you have one billion dollars, that's not your money. That's the trust the society gives to you.
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In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.
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I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
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I'm not unmindful of man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle.
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I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.
