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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When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.
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Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
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I am more into the old school guy than I am with the new school guys. I came in young and I had to pay my dues to be considered a vet. To be able to play for over 10 years at wide receiver, that's why I like looking at the older guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Teddy Ginn Jr., Brian Hartline. That's what I'm about.
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It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
