Laurie Colwin Quotes
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
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It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it because it was my 'job,' and I only did it to make money, I don't think I'd still be doing it.
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Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work."
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I want the world, I want the whole world. I want to lock it all up in my pocket,/It's my bar of chocolate/Give it to me now! I want today/I want tomorrow . . . And if I don't get the things I am after/I'm going to scream!
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The desire to collect information on customers is not new for Target or any other large retailer, of course. For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person who regularly walks into one of its stores.
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Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.