Laurence Sterne Quotes
Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Quotes to Explore
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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I'm very excited to have a girl.
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
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Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
