Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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I'm not going to be doing anything to hurt myself or my fans.
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I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.
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Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more that I may, that I mayWear my love like heaven Wear my love like Wear my love like heaven.
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You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.
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The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
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You really do have to be different. You really do have to set yourself apart.
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For centuries, native Eskimos cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they discovered Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year later the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest.
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My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don't think we had a family dinner where one didn't come up.
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The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.
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America is a tune. It must be sung together.
