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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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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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 remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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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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I'm taking dance lessons and getting stuck in. It's a great way of keeping fit, and it's obviously a big part of Bollywood movies, so I need to learn.
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I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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It still goes. But Pat is the nicest cattle I've ever seen.
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Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.
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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.
