Leslie Fiedler Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'
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We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.
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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
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Those who ignore history’s lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them...they may be forced to die by them.
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Ich überhaupt vielseitigkeit nicht recht mag, oder eigentlich nicht recht daran glaube. Was eigenthümlich, und schön, und groß sein soll, das muß einseitig sein.
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My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.
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The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'
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All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress
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The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
