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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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age - our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: 'Dear God, please don't let him get Ebola.' I'm proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that's not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider.
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Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
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I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.
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A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.
