Lisa See Quotes
Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
Quotes to Explore
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
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I am always drawn to things that feel different to what I would experience at home: things that offer a combination of unfamiliarity and a sort of bleak glamour. I think the outback has that.
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Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.
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I write because I have authority from life to do so.
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Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.
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Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
