Edwin Lefevre Quotes
In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
Sam Mendes
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I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.
Parker Posey
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It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.
James Corden
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I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
Frida Lyngstad
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I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
Mark Oliphant
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When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
John von Neumann
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?
Alice James
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I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya
Nalini Singh
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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Vittorio Alfieri
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
William Shakespeare
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A good sketch is better than a long speech.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.
George Eliot
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We were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
Ida Tarbell
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I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
John Travolta
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In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.
Edwin Lefevre