#gene

As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it. ↗

— John Legend

#day #deal #downfall #every #every day

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#axiom #dogma #general #must #painting

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#also #any #bare #being #cannot

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#existential #express #general #going #i

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#away #came #gay #general #hiv

God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#generation #god #knows #learns #nobody

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#expectation #expected #free #generally #i

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#become #career #doing #every #general

It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#fund #general #pay #security #social

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#animosity #announcing #certain #compelling #dissent