William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
Dan Shechtman -
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul -
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
Ian Hacking
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
Malcolm X -
Downloading songs is not good.
Obie Trice -
Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.
Kate Upton -
I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
Abraham A. Ribicoff -
I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
Barbra Streisand
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
Patricia Highsmith -
When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.
Taylour Paige -
I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
Harriet Walter -
A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
Wavy Gravy -
I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
Mandy Patinkin -
All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
E. M. Forster
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
William Penn -
I'd like to imagine I won't end up in hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what weve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.
Sanford I. Weill -
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
William Griffith Wilson