Cynthia Lord Quotes
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
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To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
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Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
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I am thrilled to return as Honorary Captain of the GREEKs for HBCUs Team. I reflect fondly on my days at Florida A&M University, and how visible and active all of the sororities and fraternities were. Membership in Black Greek letter organizations on college campuses is preparation for a lifetime of service.
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As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
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In the cotton States, after the war...the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the negro's wants on credit, and at the end of the season was proprietor of the negro's share of the present crop and of part of his share of the next one. Before long, the whites detested the Jew, and it is doubtful if the negro loved him.
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
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The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb
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Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.
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Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.
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Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
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Everyone has secrets and everyone tells lies.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
