Laurel Lea Quotes
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.
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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
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You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.
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Last-mile efficiencies is a big trend. It's something that consumers have demonstrated that they want and existing businesses are trying to figure out and new businesses are rising up to.
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Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
