Lisa Gansky Quotes
I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
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Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
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I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it.
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All pity is self-pity.
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I learned by watching Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.
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People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what the dangers are... It has to become properly hardwired into the American democratic debate in a way that it hasn't really been.
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I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.
