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Lisa Shannon

"I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, "I don't think you can be focused on, 'Oh gee, I want to make a difference.' It has to be spontaneous. If it's not...there's some kind of egotistical thing going on. That's a red flag. You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying."

-- Lisa Shannon

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“I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.”
“You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.”
“I follow the rules until I go against them all.”

Source : 1993 On translating her large, lyrical abstracts from paintings to prints. In the Washington Times, 16 Apr.
“Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.”
“I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.”
“Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.”
“My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.”
“Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.”

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