F. Thomson Leighton Quotes
They (Kawasaki) had to buy it special. We didn't have one here, so they got it from our Maui store.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
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To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
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In Indiana, I wasn't anything special. But in New York, I've gone out with girls with purple hair who go out with me because I'm exotic!
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They (Kawasaki) had to buy it special. We didn't have one here, so they got it from our Maui store.
