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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It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level, They talked about Michael Jordan and said he didn't have a jump shot. They say the same thing about me ? I can't throw the football and all that. Say whatever you want about me. It makes me strive harder.
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In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.
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As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me confidence to move forward.
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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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When my parents arrived with a few trunks, a few dollars, and one kid -- me -- the bakery opportunity proved to be only half-baked. I'm glad. Otherwise, I might have been a baker and this might have been a cookbook.
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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
