Adam Lindsay Gordon Quotes
Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
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Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.
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What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.
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We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
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I knew if we could somehow take him away from his game or make it tough for him to score, our chances of winning the game were high.
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God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.
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It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
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I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.
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I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.
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Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
