Lynn Schusterman Quotes
As our parents planted for us, so will we plant for our children. When Charlie and I began our philanthropic journey, we wanted to focus our resources on planting seeds that would help perpetuate Jewish values and traditions for future generations and also contribute to repairing our world.
Quotes to Explore
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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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The world wants to like America.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
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He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
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A pastor has to be media-savvy if he's going to reach everybody. I don't mean to be ugly and harsh, but to be forthright and candid. And the result is that people that don't like you start listening.
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As our parents planted for us, so will we plant for our children. When Charlie and I began our philanthropic journey, we wanted to focus our resources on planting seeds that would help perpetuate Jewish values and traditions for future generations and also contribute to repairing our world.
