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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From caring comes courage.
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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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People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
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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 Earth and Heaven his timeless death deplore,For both their worths shall equal him no more.
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Sarah Palin's a quitter.
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Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.
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I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.
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Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.
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Successful couples love each other with complete devotion
