Lisa Ling Quotes
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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People work so hard, and I want to keep that energy up, and you can spread that if you're the actor. But I'm also not able to turn it on and off like a faucet. A lot of what I'm called upon to play is violent or angry. When I'm messing around with the crew and making jokes, I remember, 'Oh, this is the guy I normally am.'
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I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.
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I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.
