Lisa Lutz Quotes

I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal or clueless.

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• Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • Happy
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• You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

  

  Q-Tip
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• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
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• To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.

  

  Samantha Power
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• The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Life
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• Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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  • Police
  • Name

• Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Words
  • Thoughts
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• One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

  

  Gail Collins
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  • College

• My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

  

  Ina Garten
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• How small of all that human hearts endure,That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!Still to ourselves in every place consigned,Our own felicity we make or find.With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• A person is a process, one that leads to death...

  

  Randall Jarrell
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• Who believes in Aslan nowadays?

  

  C. S. Lewis

• The human condition: lost in thought.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Lost

• If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into  die 'Illegal division by zero

  

  Larry Wall

• Without the foundation of law, this vast country could never have survived as one, could never have absorbed streams of immigrants from myriad cultures. With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

  

  Anthony Lewis
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• He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!

  

  Arthur Miller
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• Soothe the present as much as we may; look forward as hopefully as we can to the future, still the dreadful past must overshadow us.

  

  Arthur Helps
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• He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

  

  Herodotus
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• Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

  

  William Sleator
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  • Stories
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• Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried. Merit is no qualification for freedom. Bulgars, Afghans, and Tahitans have it. Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Country
  • Freedom

• Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Woman

• I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal or clueless.

  

  Lisa Lutz