Lawrence Durrell Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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Vanity not only distances us from God: it makes us look ridiculous.
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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
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Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.
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People feel feminists are aggressive, men-hating women with a little moustache. I think it's got a bad reputation because when feminism came into being, we were facing so much opposition that we had to be strident and aggressive.
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
