John Lyly Quotes
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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People - I hate to use the word 'fans' - are very respectful. It's not like I'm some pop idol or big movie star. I'm very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they've run into a friend. Usually, it's like, 'Hey, Wanda! How ya' doing?'
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There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.
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Our actions are the ground we walk on.
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
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Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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I think this is a pile of shit, while John Sinclair rots in prison.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, especially the much-discussed couplet:
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India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.
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Some people didn't like the novel, it is in some ways extremely bleak. But if you are dealing with the kind of subjects I am - trying to demystify the delusions we have about ourselves, to get a more accurate fix on human nature - then people are unsettled. And the easiest way to deal with that is to say it's weird or it's cold.
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'That’s me,' he said, motioning to the robot. 'That’s all of us. We prattle about free will, but we’re nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.'
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I go - as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.
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i am always doing things i can't do. that's how i get to do them.
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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
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The Apple mentality is really about creating focus, quality and a voice that people understand and can relate to.
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Born on a different cloudfrom the ones that have burst round townIt's no surprise to methat yer classless, clever and free.
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The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
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When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.
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A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.
