Lawrence Durrell Quotes
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder
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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.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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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!
Walt Handelsman
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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.
Walter Salles
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
Kate Atkinson
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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.
Damon Albarn
Gorillaz
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
Jacki Weaver
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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.
Gary Numan
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
Adam Brody
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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.
Laura Ramsey
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
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We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.
Vince Cable
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I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.
Judith Butler
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Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.
Confucius
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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
John Locke
Nazareth
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I was really inspired by photos of the "Forgotten Man" during the Depression, when men were wearing the last suit that they had at the time, just trying not to starve to death. It's the kind of suit that is worn in the rain and shrinks on the body and becomes a second skin, which is different than someone who willfully dropped out.
Autumn de Wilde
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell
