Laura Riding Quotes
She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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I have been around football all of my life.
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When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'
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She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
