Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.
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I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
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I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.
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Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
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Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
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I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.
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Kids are messy!
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Design may be a solution to some industrial problems.
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Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
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Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader of the Labour Party. I was disappointed - but not at all surprised - at the complete absence of intellectual curiosity on display. The second objective I had to try to capture for posterity the excitement and spirit of the first Corbyn campaign. Those moments when the impossible suddenly becomes possible are so powerful to those who experience them. I think it's politically valuable to relive such moments, to learn the lessons of what went right.
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History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
