Leslie Fiedler Quotes
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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There is always room at the top - after the investigation.
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I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.
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There's a lot of things that were going on. I'd run out of OxyContin, I was doing a lot of Dilaudid. Dilaudid is like a millimeter down from OxyContin. I was doing a lot of those, and life just got super stressful for me.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is to double down by pushing for 'free college tuition.' The problem with the 'free college' idea is, however, not merely financial. It also reinforces the myth that college is appropriate or even possible for all students.
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I like perfume and flowers.
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Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
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I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.
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Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
