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 am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
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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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It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.
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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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I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.
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By virtue of my job, I'm traveling. You get to spend very little time with your family. We hardly get to meet each other except on the one odd day we really get to spend time, have dinner together. And that's rare, and we cherish it.
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You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.
