Jeff Lindsay Quotes
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.
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Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
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I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
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I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.
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Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
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There's something really personal about your voice, where if people talk shit on your guitar, 'Ugh, he played out of tune,' etc., you can, in your head, blame it on something else, but when you fuck up with your singing, that's part of you ... So I guess I'm an insecure enough dude that I just went back and really studied and tried to sing better.
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When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
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If something is good, it doesn't go out of style every six months. The fashion wheel of today doesn't have to go as quickly as it was pushed in the 80's.
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It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]
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You've gotta go for it, and go for it with gusto.
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
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People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
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Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.
