Lisi Harrison Quotes
My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I hope people know that when I'm sitting there, it's not some guy on a desk on a platform with sort of this voice-of-God approach.
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I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.
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I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.
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I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
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The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.
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My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.
