Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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I'm an emotional person.
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Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.
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Most guitar players get a name because the band that they're in has become popular. That doesn't mean that they're particularly good, whereas conversely, you've got people like Albert Lee, an incredible player, one of my favourites who's not in a famous band, so he doesn't get into the popularity polls. I have to laugh at some of the people that do get into the popularity polls - some of them are so bad, but they're in a band that's at the top of the hit parade. I think people mix that up.
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President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
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A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.
