Laini Taylor Quotes
It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.
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We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen.
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It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.
