E. V. Lucas Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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I studied Morse code.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
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Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
