Eda LeShan Quotes
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'
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I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
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I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.
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On a film set, everything's done for you. You get to a stage where you can't even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we're trying to portray the human condition, but we're often not living in reality.
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I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.
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I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
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You're going to figure it out, as you go. I think that's how people feel about having children, as well. You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes, heaven hypothetical, Nature indifferent, and the dreams of men Figments of longing which we must condemn. Yet keep these plants, O Man! a kinder time May yet be moved by them to better rhyme, Or moved, like me, to place his pleasure low, On the firm Earth, whence Men and Blossoms grow.
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Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.
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We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.
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In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.
