Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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People wanted Bitcoin to live so much, they basically willed it back into existence. That showed me how passionate this community was about it.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.
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The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
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The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say that the lost will never be saved if we don't go- He simply says, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations...."
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Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty
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Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.
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There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.
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There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.
