Cynthia Lord Quotes
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Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
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Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
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Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less.
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I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.
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Waves are toys from God.
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Will toys amuse, when med'cines cannot cure? When spirits ebb, when life's enchanting scenes Their lustre lose, and lessen in our sight, As lands and cities, with their glittering spires, To the poor shatter'd bark by sudden storm Thrown off to sea, and soon to perish there? Will toys amuse? No: thrones will then be toys, And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale.
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They zebras looked like highly varnished animated toys.
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On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.
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I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
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The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
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No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing it would be if the whole Church of Christ had learned that no law of life may be based upon an isolated text. Every false teacher who has divided the Church, has had, "it is written" on which to hang his doctrine.
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President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.
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Government is the most successful idea in the world, but for all its success and importance it is something imperfect. There is no ideal state. After thousands of years it is still a mixture of good and evil.
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In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
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We had to work out how the world was going to be divided up and, using props and costumes, we had to stage a ten minute play.
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No toys in the fish tank
