Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes
My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I always played to win.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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I use no figure of speech when I say that we may now buy our books in bulk. I saw, only this morning, the advertisement of a large dry goods “emporium” (’tis laces and literature now) wherein is announced for sale the bound volumes of a popular magazine. “Over eight pounds of the choicest reading, bound in the usual style—olive green.
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Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history.
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In every war, there's looting.
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I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.
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Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance.
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My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.
