Larry Elder Quotes
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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The secrecy surrounding wealth and the anxiety of talking about money is absurd. If you are rich and you live well and you spend money and it is an essential part of your lifestyle, then you shouldn't be ashamed of talking about it. You shouldn't be ashamed of it. And I think you should accept it and be honest and open about it.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.
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I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
