Lisa Lampanelli Quotes
I'm not looking for 'outer esteem' anymore, what they call 'other esteem.' I'm looking for self-esteem. And people think that self-esteem is built with accomplishments. And, 'Hey, look what I did in my life.'
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
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When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red atrocities, I merely felt indignant that people should tell such lies. In the first case I saw corpses, in the second only words. . . I gradually acquired a certain horror of the way in which my own mind worked. It was clear to me that unless I cared about every murdered child impartially, I did not really care about children being murdered at all.
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My kids are all pretty big and tough and strong, and I don't worry about them being bullied - the reverse, be kind to people and don't ever be a bully yourself, and I think they've followed that.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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I'm not looking for 'outer esteem' anymore, what they call 'other esteem.' I'm looking for self-esteem. And people think that self-esteem is built with accomplishments. And, 'Hey, look what I did in my life.'
