Lesley Visser Quotes

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

Lesley Visser

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• I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

  

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• Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

  

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• I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
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• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

  

  Laura Wasser
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• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • History
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• I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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  • Time
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• Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Death
  • Fear
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• I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Time
  • Me
  • Contentment

• Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Science
  • Human

• I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
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• It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Moving

• But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue...Shake one, and it awakens; then applyIts polished lips to your attentive ear,And it remembers its august abodes,And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ocean
  • August

• It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Sex

• Much of the securitization took the form of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) with senior credit tranches certified by rating agencies as AAA. It was the failure to properly price such risky assets that characterized the crisis.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Failure
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• I would sit on the swing set and swing literally for two hours, just, like, imagining things. Like, what if this happened, and what if I was this guy?

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Guy

• I stand second to none in condemning sexual harassment of women.

  

  Maryanne Trump Barry
  • Women

• I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson

• I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • People
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

  

  Lesley Visser