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All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. ↗

— Jacques Lipchitz

#against #answer #art #artist #asked

Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over. ↗

— Tara Lipinski

#aspects #chance #easier #get #harder

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C. ↗

— Eric Liu

#around #articles #asked #black #black and white

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ask #been #capable #computations #digital

I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#always #asked #back #because #been

One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that. ↗

— Gary Locke

#ask #books #campaigns #change #game

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. ↗

— John Locke

#ask #attribute #been #conversing #descriptions

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#core #courage #each #go #letting

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#best #dedication #determination #hand #hard

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself. ↗

— Justin Long

#anything #avoid #concerted #concerted effort #effort