Dorothy Leigh Sayers Quotes

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

Dorothy Leigh Sayers

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• Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

  

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• When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

  

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• I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

  

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• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

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• Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

  

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• People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

  

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• How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

  

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• I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

  

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• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

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• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  

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• A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

  

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• One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

  

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• The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 9/11 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly unilateral and domineering policies have brought international trust in our country to its lowest level in memory.

  

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• I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

  

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• A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

  

  Dorothy Leigh Sayers
  • Trying
  • Passion