Lisa Unger Quotes
Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
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This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
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Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.
