Elizabeth Lowell Quotes
When it comes to death, nature is much more cruel to predators than predators are to their own prey.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.
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Ignorant power is a bane!
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Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?
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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
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Through the fortunate effect of my frankness, I had the rarest and surest opportunity to know a man well, which is to study him at leisure in his private life and living, so to speak, with himself. For he share himself without reservation and made me feel as much at home in his house as in mine. I had almost no other abode than his own.
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All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
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It's really not easy to be an artist. It's not easy to put yourself out there and be honest. I'm making things that are really happening to me, and it's not easy to share that with the world.
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Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
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Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
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The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.
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When it comes to death, nature is much more cruel to predators than predators are to their own prey.
