Cynthia Lord Quotes
Looking close can make something beautiful. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
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I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
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I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
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Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.
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In like a dimwit, out like a light.
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Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
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On the advertising side, view count is not the most important thing. It's engagement.
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It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville.
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In social, you have to innovate in information. If you have the same thing as everyone else, you're just not interesting.
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My definition of success is control.
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I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, low-budget. You just can't sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along.
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Bottom line is I always want what's best for the team, and as long as the football team is winning games, I'm happy.
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When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.
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It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'
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Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.
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Those who are pure of heart find new thoughts whenever they meditate.
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Looking close can make something beautiful. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.
