Laurie Graham Quotes
Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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I've been things and seen places.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
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Echoes of the iPhone are everywhere. Xiaomi's phones and Google's new Pixel are designed to fool you into thinking that they just might be an iPhone.
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The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.
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Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.
