Jeff Lindsay Quotes
I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!'
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Anne Elliot was the one Jane Austen character I didn't fall in love with. She seemed sad and defeated.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
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I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!'
