Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
Oh! why should woman ever love,Trusting to one false star above;And fling her little chance awayOf sunshine for its treacherous ray.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
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Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.
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Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
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I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?'
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Born in a prison, with burdens on our shoulders and our thoughts, we could not reach the end of a single day if the possibilities of ending it all did not incite us to begin the next day all over again.
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Oh! why should woman ever love,Trusting to one false star above;And fling her little chance awayOf sunshine for its treacherous ray.
