Lynn Coady Quotes
No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.
Lynn Coady
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
Felix Dennis
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
Aaron Spelling
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
Gail Carriger
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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
Manfred von Richthofen
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
Samuel Johnson
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
Sam Graves
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Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.
Eden Hazard
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
Wayne Dyer
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
Hannah Cowley
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For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.
Jim Crace
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In man or woman, but far most in man,
And most of all in man that ministers,
And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe
All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn:
Object of my implacable disgust.
William Cowper
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Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
Katherine Applegate
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Somewhere there's a happy harborfar from the storm.Out where the sun shines there is someoneI'm meant to adore,and I know the day I find her,I'll smile once more.
Burt Bacharach
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Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
Andy Rooney
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No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.
Lynn Coady
