William Landay Quotes
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
Quotes to Explore
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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I've got loads of nieces and nephews.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
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Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.
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Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience. Take colour as a totality of relations within a framecolour is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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We're a blue-collar band. That's how we like to think of ourselves. We come from humble beginnings and still have this attitude of really loving to meet people, shake their hands, and talk with them.
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Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
