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.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.
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The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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Warm, eager, living life - to be rooted in life - to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for. … This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it’s no longer so. I feel happy - deep down. All is well.
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Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.
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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.
