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
  • Forever

• You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
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  • Know

• 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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  • Woman

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

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Better
  • Common
  • Uncommon

• 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
  • People
  • Long
  • Words

• 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
  • Change
  • Party

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

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Good
  • Police
  • Name

• 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
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • 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
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Garden

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

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Death

• 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
  • Country
  • America
  • War

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

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God

• 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
  • May
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• We might be more inclined to think about the longer term if we were more aware of what is happening around us. Perhaps daily weather forecasts could include a few basic facts about the Earth's vital signs or details of where climate change is increasing the likelihood of damaging weather?

  

  Prince Charles
  • Earth
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• In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

  

  David Alan Harvey
  • Spirit
  • Photographer
  • Shooting

• Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten's neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • Girl
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• Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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  • Brother

• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  

  Pat Riley
  • Up
  • Important
  • Voice

• I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • American

• 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