Bert Williams Quotes
A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
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When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.
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Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.'
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I have people introducing themselves to me: 'I am your publicist; what can I do for you?' But I have never learned how to use a publicist.
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The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you're working. You don't get to appreciate everything. But I got enough of a sampler of South Africa; I thought, 'I want to come here when I don't have to interview people for a living so that I can really enjoy it.' Because I think it was just a magnificent place.
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A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.
