L. M. Boyd Quotes
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.
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The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that somewhat.
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
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Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
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Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.
