Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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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.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
Naomi Wolf -
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
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.
Sam Walton -
Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
Tahl Raz -
'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
Maika Monroe
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Salman Rushdie -
There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
Vera Farmiga -
Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
Jack Scalia -
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.
Patch Adams
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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.
Baldwin Spencer -
If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
Carlos Slim -
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.
Wendy Kopp -
There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
Parker Palmer
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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
William Gibson -
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
Gautama Buddha -
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
N. T. Wright -
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
Jane Rule -
We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
Elizabeth Lesser