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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: german
Birth: January 22, 1729 - February 15, 1781

Topics

Loving Lazy Everything Being Us

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Choices Feeling Kind Need Intuition

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

Jennifer Coolidge

Love Hate Admit Gamble

People think I'm fearless. But I'm human.

People Fearless Think Human

The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.

Education Community Day Generosity

The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.

Children Job College You Want Years

After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day's activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening.

Time Moment Day Parents Goodbye

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Robertson Davies

World Opera Mere

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Choose Born Way Become Just Writer

My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Beach Mistakes Sun Me Tough You

Pearls mean tears.

Tears Mean Pearls

I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.

People Start Think Thinking Better

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Character Freedom Independence Self

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