Lloyd Alexander Quotes
'That’s another thing about emperors-and regents,' Gareth said. 'They aren’t very fond of changes, even if the changes are for the better.'
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
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I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
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Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.
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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
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When thou was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.
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It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.
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That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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'That’s another thing about emperors-and regents,' Gareth said. 'They aren’t very fond of changes, even if the changes are for the better.'
