Lisa Ling Quotes
Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.
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There's so much more to life than how you look.
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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
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One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.
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I wanted to become a model since I was a kid.
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Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.
