Laini Taylor Quotes
A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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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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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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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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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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 the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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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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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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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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I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.
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Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.
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I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.
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We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.
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Kids can learn a lot by seeing things rather than reading it.
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A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
