Cynthia Lord Quotes
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.
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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
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He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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Emily’s chestnut-colored hair was thick and shiny as silk floss-an extraordinary female endowment. But like most female endowments, it was generally more trouble than it was worth.
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
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Cedit item retro, de terra quod fuit ante,in terras.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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You can never have too much ketchup, 'cause it's a food group.
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I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.
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No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.
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… when was a woman ever witty without being bitter?
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Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one "if" to another.
