Tanith Lee Quotes
This sight was terrible, more terrible than words convey, for words are cowards as men are, and hide things as men do.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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For men, it's about finding the perfect shoe or the perfect pants that will last you through the years. That's how I want to shop: sustainable, classic, great quality.
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Do you believe then that the sciences would have arisen and grown up if the sorcerers, alchemists, astrologers and witches had not been their forerunners; those who, with their promisings and foreshadowings, had first to create a thirst, a hunger, and a taste for hidden and forbidden powers?
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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Books cannot always please, however good;Minds are not ever craving for their food.
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This sight was terrible, more terrible than words convey, for words are cowards as men are, and hide things as men do.
