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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You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.
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For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest.
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If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry.
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We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.
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Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
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I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
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America is a tune. It must be sung together.
