Donna Leon Quotes
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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I am not an enemy of Adventism.
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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I don't think that anything that anyone is doing today that is being pointed at as the "enemy" or "the problem" is as dangerous to our future as the fact that there are so many pointed fingers. The pointed finger is the enemy.
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When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story.
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If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
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A hundred starlings let loose in Central Park have by now multiplied to more than two hundred million.
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Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will.
