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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.
