Lisa Lutz Quotes
'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew.
Quotes to Explore
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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Truth is a tendency.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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No two wars are identical.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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We know that our cells are speaking to each other.
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Taking my bike out and riding the bike path along Lake Shore Drive, that's one of the great experiences in my life. And I hope to do it as long as I can.
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If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.
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I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
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You breathe better when you're rich.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.
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Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
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'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew.
