Lisa Ling Quotes

I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

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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.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • World
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Person
  • Unique
  • Teen

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Imagination

• I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Know
  • Day
  • Everyday

• 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.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Friends
  • Possible

• 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.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Joy

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Work
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • You
  • Lose
  • Things Happen

• I don't write about Google except to insult the company.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Company
  • Google
  • Insult

• 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.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Me

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• 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.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Different
  • Think
  • Sports

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Man

• Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Man
  • Problem
  • Hair

• I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

  

  Babyface
  • Time
  • Work
  • Artist

• It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Mankind
  • Peculiar
  • Transcend

• 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.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Myself

• When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-tip, cleaning my ear out after I'd taken a shower. I hit my arm on something, jabbed the Q-tip through my ear drum, busted my ear drum and couldn't get back in the water the rest of the time we were there.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Time
  • Night
  • Water

• Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • True
  • Partner

• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Win
  • Guilty
  • Will

• Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Kid
  • Partner