Jenny Lawson Quotes
If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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Pat Robertson: He's going to have a second term. He's going to win. Romney will win the election.Benny Hinn: You believe that.Pat Robertson: I absolutely believe that.Benny Hinn: What makes you believe that?Pat Robertson: Cause the Lord told me.
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Did you know that when a baby poops its diaper, you're not supposed to hit him with a rolled up newspaper?
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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
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The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.
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We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.
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I love my mother a not-normal amount.
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But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.
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We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.
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If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.
