D. H. Lawrence Quotes
That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.
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The stupidest word Jason could have imagined. Utter nonsense. Supposedly it would unmake Maldor. He repeated the odd syllables in his mind, varying the inflection. If it failed, he could always try "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
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The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.
