Walter Jon Williams Quotes
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
Manute Bol -
When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.
Laura Esquivel -
I can swear like a fishwife.
Frances Bay -
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
Malcolm Gladwell -
We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
Dan Hawkins
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster -
I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.
Edd Byrnes -
I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
K. D. Lang -
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
Iggy Pop -
Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.
Camren Bicondova -
With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
Zosia Mamet
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.
Tanya Fischer -
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. Forster -
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
Zainab Salbi
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I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.
Bailey Chase -
There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.
Gary Player -
He picked up from me a certain way of thinking, certain logic, certain cut of mind. He has got from his mother a facility with words, and a certain intuition. So please do give him some slack, if you find that he thinks slowly, and speaks even more slowly.
Lee Kuan Yew -
We have to build further on the collaboration with business and labor to restore confidence and prevent an investment downgrade.
Cyril Ramaphosa -
I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
Walter Jon Williams