Lisa Ling Quotes
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
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It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.
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I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.
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In running, the only equipment that really matters - at least the mentality was in those days - were the pair of shoes that you wore.
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I started running when I was 21 years old and studying in China.
