"If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart."

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Source : Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

Lois McMaster Bujold

#Smart Quotes #Feet Quotes #Seven Quotes

“There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on the stream. There are little currents and eddies and sticks lying in the water that nudge you in a slightly different direction. And then you break loose and carry on down the current. There's nothing that actually stops you and lifts you out of the water and puts you on the bank but there are diversions and distractions and alarums and excursions which is what makes life interesting really. It's fantastic.”
“If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them”
“Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.”
“I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.”
“The film industry is like Anne Robinsonalways on the look-out for a new face”
“Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.”
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.”
“I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.”

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