Laini Taylor Quotes
A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
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I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
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Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin' luvly figgers and me stayin' flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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BBJ customers value long-range capability and cabin size, and this product offering enhances both.
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Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they'd put me to bed. I heard everyone on the rooftop, and I went upstairs. No one paid any attention to me, so I took a hose and sprayed everyone. Very elegant, right? 'It's me! Look at me!' I loved the attention.
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A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
