Lynne Truss Quotes
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them.
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Since your company is the product that makes all of your other products, it should be the best product of all. When you begin to think of your company this way, you evaluate it differently. You ask different questions about it. You look at improving it constantly, rather than just accepting what it's become.
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Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
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I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing.
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I'm an amateur.
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What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
