Lynn Coady Quotes
I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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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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People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
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You rarely see any blowout games.
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We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.
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I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.
