Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
Deceit is this world's passport: who would dare,However pure the breast, to lay it bare?
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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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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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.
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When I see kids who naturally get A's and who naturally score high on tests and the teachers naturally like them because they require the least amount of management - when they come out into the real world, I find they're very poor at getting through obstacles. And life is about solving obstacles.
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Andoya is in a different world, set at the northern edge of Europe in what seems to be a time and weather of its own.
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I back people who I think will be seeking help and advice. These are the best entrepreneurs.
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Deceit is this world's passport: who would dare,However pure the breast, to lay it bare?
