Lisa See Quotes
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.
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I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.
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Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he - as a character - was even larger than his presidency. Being able to get to know him well, that firsthand relationship with this large character, I think is what drew me to writing books about presidents.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.
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My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.
