William Lethaby Quotes
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.
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Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.
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Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.
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If there are fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies on the table, I won't say no to those. Soy sauce is another one, even though it's awful - it's so high in sodium.
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Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
