Antony Garrett Lisi Quotes

It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time. If you are determined to spend your time following your own interests, you pretty much have to do it on your own.

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Action

• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Kids
  • Identity
  • Expectations

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Fun
  • Enjoy
  • Princess

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Man
  • Present

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

  

  Young Buck
  • Like
  • Gone
  • Maybe

• The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Journey
  • Take
  • Internal

• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin, so I like having the definition a beard gives.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Pretty

• When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • People
  • Writing
  • Done

• If Michael Flynn lost his job because of a gradual erosion of trust, shouldn't the easy and frequent production of official statements that are so many connecting flights from the truth also be concerning?

  

  John Dickerson
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Lost

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Now

• It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time. If you are determined to spend your time following your own interests, you pretty much have to do it on your own.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • Time
  • Job
  • Pretty