Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
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To be honest, there is no place like home.
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It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
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I love Kate Moss. I've worked with her a couple of times, and she is a great girl, really funny and easy to work with.
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Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.
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Life is too short to dust every week.
