Lisa Ling Quotes
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I'm determined to raise a strong girl.
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I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.
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What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!
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I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.
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There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
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We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.
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I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.
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You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.
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The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.
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As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.
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It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.
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He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.
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We've got to stop thinking everybody who is Muslim is a terrorist.
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I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don't run to build muscle; I do it for cardio.
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There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.
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I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.
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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
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The best education I have ever received was through travel.
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I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.
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Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not. They're people.
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We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.
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Such a small percentage of our population carry the burden of knowing what's really going on in our country's name, and I think that unless that's out in the open and people are discussing it, then our healthy democracy is not so healthy.
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Our time on Earth is so random.
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There's a huge piece of humanity that's missing - a huge piece - and our [American] culture is infant, comparatively speaking, to these folks who have been around for thousands of years.
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I had a planned C-section and I cried the entire day before I had the baby.
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We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.
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Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.
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I don't trust lawyers and journalists.
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My husband and I try to spend some time every night that I'm home talking without distractions.
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Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.
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