Lewis Gordon Pugh Quotes
Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.
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A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
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If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it.
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Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.
