Lilla Watson quotes

Lilla Watson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.”
-- Lilla Watson

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“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
“I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.”
“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”
“I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days shall give it to my wife and 2 children as well as to our neighbors and their children.”
“When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.”
“A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.”

Source : "Open Letter to President Wilson". Book by Ben Salmon, October 14, 1919.
“People, when they come up to me, are like, Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp? And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.”

Source : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.
“I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.”
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

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