Lawrence Timmons Quotes
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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Stop focusing on Trump so much and focus on your government. Make sure you elect the people that you want in your neighborhoods, in your cities, in your state.
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I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.
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There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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Apple is on fire, delivering smash hits across its entire product line. It's hard to think of another company that has ever been on such a roll.
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I'm the type of guy that likes to lead by example.
