Harold B. Lee Quotes
It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
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But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
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We trolls say: 'Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.'
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All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.
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There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
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It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.
