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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My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.
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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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It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.
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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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It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
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The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.
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Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.
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In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture -and American culture has triumphed.
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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.
