Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.
Quotes to Explore
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.
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I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.
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I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.
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In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.
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He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.
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Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.
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As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.
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My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.
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By now everyone knows that I picked Kentucky, and I am definitely happy with my decision and that it's all finally over.
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As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.
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'Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.'
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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'We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing.'
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Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.
