Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes
'Always needing to have the last word is a bad trait Ms. Blake, pisses people off.'
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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I don't care what America and Africa think; I am only concerned that the people of this country should be saved from its Army.
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I feel like I could never walk around a film half-naked. I definitely wouldn't want to see that.
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For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
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It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.
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Because I'm not trying to throw people any curves.
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'Always needing to have the last word is a bad trait Ms. Blake, pisses people off.'
