Alison Lurie Quotes
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Alison Lurie
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian McShane
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
Victoria Principal
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
Xenophon
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
Adam Clarke
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
Karen Salmansohn
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.
Ian Cohen
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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
Oscar Wilde
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I moved from Philadelphia to California when I was 25, after traveling abroad for a year. I thought I'd come home eventually and settle down, but I didn't.
Kelly Corrigan
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I have a luck cat in my arms,
it spins threads of luck.
Luck cat, luck cat,
make for me three things:
make for me a golden ring,
to tell me that I am lucky;
make for me a mirror
to tell me that I am beautiful;
make for me a fan
to waft away my cumbersome thoughts.
Luck cat, luck cat,
spin for me some news of my future!
Edith Södergran
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As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Alison Lurie
