David Leavitt Quotes
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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Time stays, we go.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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The wealth of agreements we will be signing together on September 5 bears witness to the increasing levels of practical cooperation.
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I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.
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Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.
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Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his or her "characteristics," all the emotions, strivings, tastes, and constructions which it pleases us to call "My Life." We have grounds to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.
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The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
