D. H. Lawrence Quotes
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
Quotes to Explore
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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Audit the Fed is a bill that would politicize monetary policy, would bring short-term political pressures to bear on the Fed. In terms of openness about our financial accounts, we are extensively audited.
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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious persecution and came to America seeking a better life for their family.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
