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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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about 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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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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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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I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money.
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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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I have that love for music, when you are finding either old gems that you never heard or newer stuff that perks your ear. It keeps you trying to look for new stuff to write about it. You don't spin your wheels. I take that same approach to music and books.
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Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.
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Food is so heavily connected to memory.
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Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.
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Nothing wrong about EDM. Great songs came out of it, but there was a period when everything had to have a pace of 128 bpm and be DJ-related.
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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.
