Laurence Sterne Quotes
I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I like to control my films from beginning to end, to write them the way I want.
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Actually, the challenge I’ve always had is being too thin, so I love that now I have a booty, and obviously I love showing my cleavage.
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I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
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When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.
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I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.
