#elf

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#demanding #does #endless #even #find

Strangers still leave me self-conscious. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#me #self-conscious #still #strangers

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#conversation #e-mail #exchange #intimate #more

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#around #back #comes #corner #death

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#government #government spending #heard #himself #i

I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character. ↗

— James Lafferty

#been #catching #character #does #doing

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me. ↗

— James Lafferty

#challenge #character #definitely #different #interesting

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving. ↗

— Christine Lagarde

#alone #cooking #giving #i #i love

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself. ↗

— Christine Lagarde

#financial #industry #itself #others #serve

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that. ↗

— Christine Lagarde

#come #compared #death #ego #extremely