Leland Ryken Quotes
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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When you have to work, work with a smile.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
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Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
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People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you do and how long you've done it. And what is success in your eyes? Have you separated yourself from everyone else in that craft? Or have you settled amongst the pack?
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I still work weekends because I like it; I enjoy it. I just don't care.
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We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
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The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.
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To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.
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Spices, of course, are essential.
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We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.
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If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.
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The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
