Lisa Lutz Quotes
I love 'The Wire'. I can't think of a television show that I think is superior to it in any way. I was obsessed with it from the moment it came on the air. I do also love 'Doctor Who' and 'Get Smart'.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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I think celebrities suck.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
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Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.
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To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
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I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.
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I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.
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For me, it was always just taking the next opportunity to sing in front of someone and always trying to take those strides forward to find a place to sing, to make a music career. It was small increments, but I always knew that I had to take the next opportunity.
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Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.
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I love 'The Wire'. I can't think of a television show that I think is superior to it in any way. I was obsessed with it from the moment it came on the air. I do also love 'Doctor Who' and 'Get Smart'.
