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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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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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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Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.
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I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.
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When you know yourself you are surprised that what is the greatest thing for you is to love and to be loved.
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I guess you shouldn't smoke cigarettes and not eat.
