Victor LaValle Quotes
Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
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If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
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Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
