Allan A. Lamport Quotes
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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
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People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
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Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
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The Egyptian FA have tried to persuade me to play for them, but all I'm dreaming about is the blue jersey.
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If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I wanna be there.
