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 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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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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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 have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined.
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A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
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In the digital realm, companies are free from the friction of producing physical goods, and as a result, we see companies like Google go from zero dollars in revenues to billions at a much faster rate.
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A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.
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When I used to say I did dressage, I got blank looks. No one had a clue what I was on about.
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We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
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And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.
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Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
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The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.
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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.
