Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
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In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
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I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
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There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon.
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A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.
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How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.
