Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. I was in a comedy team called Red Johnny And The Round Guy.
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Kristen Stewart always looks good - she wears what she wants. It's the same with Alison Mosshart - she chooses clothes that she loves rather than what she thinks she should wear.
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
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When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
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No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.
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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
