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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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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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
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I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.
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For me, the times in my life when I've been single have been more formative and crucial than I could have imagined. I can cope, function and be happy on my own. I'm highly capable. That doesn't mean I don't like being with a partner, or that I don't feel more rounded when I'm with someone. But the times on my own have been so good.
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When they told Missis Cohen that she'd lost her man, She said 'Must you interrupt me when I'm playing 'Pan'?' Then she said to her partner, Missus R. J. Rosen, 'Cohen was a lovely husband, but he's no good frozen.
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It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.
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I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.
