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.

Victor LaValle

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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.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• 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.

  

  Ted Danson
  • World
  • Myself
  • View

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
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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.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Home
  • Football
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Long
  • Change

• To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Food
  • Production
  • Absurd

• 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!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Pigs

• When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Thought
  • Away
  • Rush

• 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.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Picture
  • Guilty

• 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.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • You
  • Working

• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Out
  • Indignation

• I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Lost
  • Religion
  • Say

• The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Public
  • Keep
  • Other

• If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Me
  • Trust

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Hand

• Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Mistake
  • Debt
  • Both

• There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Children
  • Heaven

• We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Thoughts
  • Products
  • Whatever

• The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Way
  • Question
  • Start

• Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Important
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Myself
  • Year
  • Lazy