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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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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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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I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
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In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
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Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.
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I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with neurosurgeons' opinion that nothing tops neurosurgery! But that makes for a quite interesting conflict between the two.
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Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.
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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.
