Laurie Graham Quotes
I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.
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There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty
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Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market.
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I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.
