Lester Cole Quotes
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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It doesn't always make sense to have a token on the blockchain that is both useful and represents ownership - it has to be something where there's a network effect. That's why I cite Facebook as an example of what could be disrupted more so than, say, Amazon - which is bit more centralized and is not exactly a network of users in the same way.
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Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
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Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.
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Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
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I feel curious about every situation I'm in.
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According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.
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I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
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I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.
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I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly bound to him. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside, in County Galway, in the West of Ireland, and we didn't see many other kids.
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Our society's dependence on imagery says a lot about our values.
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Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
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Forgive your enemies, but first get even.
