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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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
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Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.
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I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.
