D. H. Lawrence Quotes

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

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• The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

  

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• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

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• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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• I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

  

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• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

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• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  

  Karen O
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• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

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• Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

  

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• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

  

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• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• It's great that people are interested in Mars.

  

  Jack Schmitt
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• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
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• The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

  

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• I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

  

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• I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.

  

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• The United States is imposing sanctions on individuals and companies working to advance Iran's ballistic missile program, and we are going to remain vigilant about it. We're not going to waver in the defense of our security or that of our allies and partners.

  

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• If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

  

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• It's nothing to be ashamed of and that there are even beneficial traits associated with the condition. Most importantly, acknowledge yourself for who you are and if you're struggling with anything resembling ADD get professionally diagnosed.

  

  Christopher Knight

• When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Creative
  • Virtue