Lloyd Dorfman Quotes
Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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We should all love animals.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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I don't like the fact that there are so few Russians in Hollywood, but it is understandable because of the historic relationship between America and Russia - the Cold War history, for example. It is kind of a cliche, but it's still with us.
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Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.
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When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
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What's my philosophy? In a word, integral.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.
