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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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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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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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 think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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Candidates are up one day, down the other. Candidates' fortunes turn on a dime. They can be determined by a good or bad debate performance.
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I've had tremendous opportunities in film and continue to have them, but it's such a different thing to do a television show, and I'm very lucky to be able to do them both.
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I live the life I want to lead.
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When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.
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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.
