Lisa See Quotes
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
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Free love sounds great.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.
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Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
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My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.
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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
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Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.
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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. … They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots.... Kill the sons of bitches.
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If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.
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The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.
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I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
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In the 1950's there was a kind of agreement that a good artist would do something in his picture that acknowledge the edge, but it was a question of doing something when you got to the edge. Cropping was something new. It came from photography and from w:Clement Greenberg. It was resisted as being too easy.
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I think actors who take things too far are funny.
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I write what I'm interested in.
