Laura Lippman Quotes
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.
Laura Lippman
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
Valentino Rossi
I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
Kacey Musgraves
Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
Taylor Swift
In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
Dan Gilbert
I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.
Dallas Willard
For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
Zhang Yimou
In the words of Euripides, ‘those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad’.
Catharine Arnold
I'm open to different parts. I would love to do something where I can sing and act at the same time.
Brandy
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
Mahatma Gandhi
People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.
Sandra Bernhard
The collective effort of repression was tremendous, made the alcohol indispensable. An intense but contentless optimism about the future was the only protection against the recent past, in which all the regimes of value had collapsed, irradiated or gassed.
Ben Lerner
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.
Laura Lippman