Leighton Meester Quotes
When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
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By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.
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Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
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..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.
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'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016
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Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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This is near enough true bliss.
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If you invest the time earlier to create structure and process around communication, planning, and goal-setting, you can prevent missteps before they occur.
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The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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A man needs a little madness, or else… he never dares cut the rope and be free.
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That every will must consider every other will its equal - would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.
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Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.
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When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.
