Lisa See Quotes
Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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I think all politicians lie.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.
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Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product.
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Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.
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I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
