Judith Flanders Quotes
The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
Quotes to Explore
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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Excellence always sells.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
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Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Sentimus experimurque, nos aeternos esse.
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
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We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.
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Price is nothing when it comes to fashion. It's all about the style.
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I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.
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The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
