L. M. Boyd Quotes
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.
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When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
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Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
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That's all the information I need to know about the church, Jesus picked it. And so instead of me telling the church how she would really look better if she had this in her hair, or that over there, I think I'm just respecting the Groom's pick.
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I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It's what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.
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If you're more than three feet away from a housefly, it can't see you.
