Kenneth Lay Quotes
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
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If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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Sir, what is Poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is: but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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Supreme happiness is gained via contentment.
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Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
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I love karaoke and totally hog the mic when I go out and do it with my friends.
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I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
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The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.
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I'm not the healthiest eater, but I try to watch what I eat during the week. I kind of splurge on the weekends and eat french fries and pizza.
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Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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Nothing has been given to me.
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Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
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The opposite of slut is someone who has not been labeled a slut, someone who has never been charged with violating doxa.
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You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.
