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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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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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.
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If you're more than three feet away from a housefly, it can't see you.
