Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
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My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
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You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
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Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.
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My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.
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When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.
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I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.
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An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
