Lynne Truss Quotes
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.
Quotes to Explore
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.
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Part of what you learn about life is that a wrecking ball can come out of nowhere, and it isn't just going to take out your left toe. It can hit you right in the middle and take you down.
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Will darted back to the gutter, and picked up the knife, and the fight was over. The young man, cut and battered, clambered up the step, and saw Will standing above him holding the knife; he stared with a sickly anger and then turned and fled.
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If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.
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Carlos, on paper, and Carlos, the guy who was in jail, is known to be a cultivated guy, the guy who handles big amounts of information, and for me, that was very important.
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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
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What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.
