Billy Lawrence Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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I am a lifelong Democrat.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
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Age considers; youth ventures.
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They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.
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κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἰσάπαξ θανεῖνἢ τὰς ἁπάσας ἡμέρας πάσχειν κακῶς.
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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
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I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
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I never learn. Like a waitress will bring my meal. Hey, enjoy your meal. You, too. But you don't have one, do ya? I'm a dufus. If you do eat enjoy it when you eat it if you have a break or something, later. If you get an opportunity. That's all I'm trying to say.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.
