Lawrence Timmons Quotes
I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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I don't remember much about the specifics of the economics courses that I majored in - I apparently internalized the key concepts - but I still remember vividly the thrill of reading 'Don Quixote,' Epictetus, 'The Aeneid,' 'King Lear' and 'Candide,' and how contemporary the stories and ideas in these old and ancient texts struck me.
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Success can be a very difficult thing to deal with.
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A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.
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All religions have been made by men.
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I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.
