Lisa See Quotes
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.
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Successful leaders view the journey more like the captain of a sailboat, relying on their skill and know-how, but knowing all along that the wind (help from other sources) is the force that will get them to their destination.
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I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
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Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.
