T. J. Lavin Quotes
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almost like kill the next one. And it usually works I would say 9 times out of 10.
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I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
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I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
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Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.
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You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.
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Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
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I guess you shouldn't smoke cigarettes and not eat.
