Leslie Fiedler Quotes
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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It feels better to love than to hate.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.
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Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.
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The middlebrow, I hate.
