Lois Wyse Quotes
Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.
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Production is fun but it’s a means to an end in many ways. You’re assisting other people’s dreams. It’s a day job in many ways. Doing my own stuff is far more rewarding.
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In Singapore, drivers generally obey the rules, but the attitude around pedestrians is actually quite different. It's culturally different. People drive safely, but it's not the same deference shown to pedestrians.
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I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.
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But if we can’t help our latent biases, we can help our behavior in response to those instinctive reactions, which is why we work to design systems and processes that overcome that very human part of us all. Although the research may be unsettling, it is what we do next that matters most.
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Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
