Walter Lord Quotes
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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The reason why Indian bowling has done exceptionally well in this World Cup is MS Dhoni. When we wrote them off, he kept supporting them. When they were struggling, only he was standing by his bowlers.
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I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
