L Quotes
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“Like any form of investments, crypto is not a get rich quick scheme, it helps you protect your money from inflation and generate generational wealth.”
“Like any foundation, antifragility requires continued care to remain resilient to new hazards, which constantly emerge to erode it.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Like any friend you have it's got its personal beliefs and its hangups and its limitations. But at the end of the day your fear loves you and it wants to keep you safe.”
Source: Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life
“Like any good drug, anger can mask all reality. But anger is not an easy emotion to call up on demand, which is why an enemy is so wonderful. You're tired. Didn't sleep well. You have zero energy. Then you get lucky. You pull into the boathouse parking lot and see your favorite enemy. Celebrate. Your workout is saved. One look at that chowderhead can put you into the angerzone. As you turn off your car, you can feel your whole physical being change. Respiration increases. The dull look on your face is magically transformed into the power-stare of a true rowing warriot.”
“Like any good optimist, I don’t expect the worst to happen. Only, like any optimist worth his salt, I like to go and look as soon as possible afterward jest in case it did.”
Source: The Mansion
“Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.”
“Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.”
“Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.”
“Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.”
“Like any great and good country, Japan has a culture of gathering- weddings, holidays, seasonal celebrations- with food at the core. In the fall, harvest celebrations mark the changing of the guard with roasted chestnuts, sweet potatoes, and skewers of grilled gingko nuts. As the cherry blossoms bloom, festive picnics called hanami usher in the spring with elaborate spreads of miso salmon, mountain vegetables, colorful bento, and fresh mochi turned pink with sakura petals.”
Source: Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
“Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.”
“Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.”
“like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.”
“Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.”
“Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.”
“Like any man, he had no real protection from an unsolicited kiss from a pretty woman, even one he had just murdered.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you.”
Source: The Waters
“Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.”
“Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.”
“Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.”
“Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.”
“Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.”
“Like any other matter of public consumption bullshit is meant primarily to satisfy the hunger of its manufacturer, for you have to believe in your own delusion in order to make people have a share in it.”
Source: To Life from the Shadows
“Like any other part of the human body, activity makes the brain healthy.”
Source: All For Acceptance
“Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.”
“Like Any Other Retail Category, Only Technology And Data Science Can Solve The Pain Points Of The Automobile Retailing.”
“Like any other spiritual transformation or renewal, conversion must begin with an honest and a sincere admission that we need God's trans-formative power in our lives to achieve any real change, no matter the perspective from which we might begin.”
“Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.”
“Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored.”
“Like any proper Cuban gathering, it took the adults another forty-five minutes of conversation to actually say good-bye.”
Source: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
“Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base”
“Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.”
“Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.”
Source: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
“Like any tool [drugs] can help you or hurt you.”
“Like any / unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real /
when I’m not being touched.”
Source: Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines
“Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.”
“Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.”
“Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course, then my work.”
“Like any young person, I do what I want.”
“Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way he danced, and the way he sang, and his image.”
“Like anybody else, athletes like to pig out on a bit of junk food every now and then, but they also know that they couldn't do that all the time if they wanted to keep their body in peak condition to compete at the highest level.”
“Like anybody starting out in something new, I needed someone to believe in me.”
Source: The Last Hart Beating: From the Dungeon to WWE
“Like anybody, I like clothes, and I enjoy what I like to wear. We might have a difference in personal outfit choices. Some might not like it. But to judge someone because of their appearance is pretty foolish. If you have time to do that, I suggest you look at yourself in the mirror and spend more time developing yourself. Come on, it's 2013.”
“Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.”
“Like anyone cared where I was, or who I was.”
“Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.”
“Like anyone else, I go up and down. You wake up some days, and you're like, "Life is great." You wake up other days, and you're like, "This is so shitty. I just want to stay in bed." Right now, I feel confident that as long as I can keep the sound moving forward, this is something I'll be doing for at least another five years.”
“Like anyone else, I too have the potential for violence; I too have anger in me. However, I try to recall that anger is a destructive emotion. I remind myself that scientists now say that anger is bad for our health; it eats into our immune system. So, anger destroys our peace of mind and our physical health. We shouldn’t welcome it or think of it as natural or as a friend.”
“Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.”