Arnold Lobel Quotes
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.
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Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.
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In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
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I try to eat on the healthier side, but baked goods are hard to resist. I just love sweet things.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
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We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
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There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.
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Flattery'll get you anywhere.
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There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.
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I'm always going to stand up for my beliefs and stand behind them.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
