Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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I've always taken direction pretty well.
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I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.
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The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
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To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice with Mindy Kaling on her excellent sitcom 'The Mindy Project.'
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
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Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.
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His gentleness twined another tendril around her heart, until she was so entangled in him, she knew she’d never break free. For the first time in her life, her wolf had chosen. And it had chosen this lone wolf. “You have me,” she whispered. All of me.
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We don’t really want to know what soldiers go through in combat. We do not really want to know how many children are being molested and abused in our own society or how many couples—almost a third, as it turns out—engage in violence at some point during their relationship. We want to think of families as safe havens in a heartless world and of our own country as populated by enlightened, civilized people. We prefer to believe that cruelty occurs only in faraway places like Darfur or the Congo. It is hard enough for observers to bear witness to pain. Is it any wonder, then, that the traumatized individuals themselves cannot tolerate remembering it and that they often resort to using drugs, alcohol, or self-mutilation to block out their unbearable knowledge?
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-vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;