Edwin Lefevre Quotes

The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.

Edwin Lefevre

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• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Best

• A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Home
  • Winning
  • Holiday

• Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Relationships
  • Carry
  • Ending

• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Civilization
  • Barbarism

• I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Feeling

• The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Objects
  • Acts
  • Sensory

• My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Country
  • You
  • Financial

• I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Rights
  • Voting

• If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • God
  • English
  • Arabic

• It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Country
  • Together
  • Political

• My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Beginning
  • Never
  • Strange

• Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Lost

• I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Think
  • Cute
  • Cats

• I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Day
  • Thought

• Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hair
  • Moment
  • Reflection

• Let's put it this way: I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why, exactly.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• My teacher, Professor Smil Sommarin, was a fine pedagogue, a very generous person, and a great admirer of Kurt Wicksell.

  

  Bertil Ohlin
  • Great
  • Teacher

• I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Children
  • Book
  • Hope

• Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Future
  • Water

• The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Business
  • Beauty
  • Forgives