L. Whitney Clayton Quotes
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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Working opposite Max Greenfield is the best job in the world. He's just incredible.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
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We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
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Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.
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'Caddyshack' touched people; so did 'Tron.' 'Caddyshack' is a lifestyle, and 'Tron' is more religious, spiritual, but both are very emotional responses.
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Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.
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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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Successful couples love each other with complete devotion
