Tanith Lee Quotes
Somewhere in me was a rod of steel to which I clung. I’d had a vision, as good as any vision given to any poet, sage, or prophet in the past. I wasn’t elated, I wasn’t confident even, but somehow, I knew, and with the end of doubt had come the death of despair.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.
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I am the odd man out in the family.
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I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.
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Somewhere in me was a rod of steel to which I clung. I’d had a vision, as good as any vision given to any poet, sage, or prophet in the past. I wasn’t elated, I wasn’t confident even, but somehow, I knew, and with the end of doubt had come the death of despair.
