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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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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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 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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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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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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Did you see the speed of the ball or not?
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People say, 'I want to get laid a lot and make lots of money.' That's not the right order.
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It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..
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I live, to get out of what I live through.
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For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way through this world. The bigger and bolder, the better.
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Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology.
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I personally think 'Power' is much more similar to 'The Sopranos' in that it deals with a character who is leading a double life and wants to become legitimate.
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I'm not mainstream. You gotta find me.
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It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.
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Education is the social bedrock for the hopes and dreams of our children and the foundation that is necessary for their future prosperity.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
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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.'
