Lawrence Durrell Quotes
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.
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When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.
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The great artist takes what he needs.
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The antitrust division has been left in very good shape by Joel Klein. I've found a number of enforcement issues I'm happy to pursue.
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
