Bill Flores Quotes
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
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There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they're angry about.
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
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OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
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Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions.
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In our country, being from immigrant parents, growing up black in the South, coming out at 16 years old, being a teen parent... you would assume that my life would amount to nothing. And here I stand today. So, if I can do it... you can, too!
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Love is not selfish or unkind. Nor is it boastful or disloyal. Love is simply a deep feeling found within the heart that money cannot buy.
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I campaigned on being a collaborative leader.
