Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.
Quotes to Explore
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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One can insult an honest man or an honest woman, but to tell a thief that he is a thief is merely la constation d'un fait The establishing of a fact.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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In bachata, you had these guys that used to wear suits and had a really traditional style. We looked different. Baggy jeans. We had the Spanglish going on, and I knew that was going to work to our advantage.
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You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.
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My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'
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I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.
