Donna Leon Quotes
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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I do not favor the gag order.
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I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
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Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
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The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.
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... I had a dream where I was taken to Heaven and brought into a beautiful library. There I was given two golden books that were covered with dust. The Lord told me they were golden treasure that was needed for the Body of Christ to have the knowledge to proceed and succeed in this hour.
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We gotta concentrate more. When we've got a team down, we've gotta step on them.
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People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better.
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I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.
