Bill Cartwright Quotes
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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South Central is just who I am.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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Computing technology started out as number-crunching.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
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My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.
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Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
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Honestly, production when you first start can be difficult to wrap your head around.
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Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.
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School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.
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By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
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Each year, I pick something new to learn. One year, it was learning how to knit, and I got 'The Sweethearts' Knitting Club' out of the experience. Another year, it was to volunteer at the local domestic abuse shelter, and I ended up volunteering there for three years.
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Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.
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I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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The triangle is a foundation to an offense.
