Lisa See Quotes

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

Lisa See

• Men
• Women
• Strong
• Brave
• Agony
• Defeat & bear

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• I like to do the splits onstage.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Like
  • Onstage
  • Splits

• Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Like
  • Fan
  • Guns

• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • City
  • Habits

• It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Men
  • Mind

• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Become
  • Gravity

• Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Home
  • American
  • Community

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Rock

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • War
  • Technology

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

  

  Boris Kodjoe
  • Life
  • Future

• When I'm competing, I need to be strong.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • Strong

• One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

  

  Thomas More
  • Men
  • Smart
  • Pleasure

• So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.

  

  Jim Cantalupo
  • Money

• I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.

  

  Jennifer Johnston
  • People
  • Good

• We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

  

  Lisa See
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong