Lane Kirkland Quotes
Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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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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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.
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The difference between winning this game and losing it is, you might say, the difference between facing big games now and desperation games.
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Poetry stands or falls by its music.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
