Lloyd Alexander Quotes
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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Did ignorance save his freedom, or merely his illusion of freedom?
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It is a curious little world within itself
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What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
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History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
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One of the big mistakes of the Moroccan elite and the elite in the Muslim world was to be afraid of the conservatives. They are fighting for their ideas. Why shouldn't we fight for our ideas?
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Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
