Bill Flores Quotes
I am philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age. I misspoke and said I was not philosophically opposed.
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.
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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
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I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.
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Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
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By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet.
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I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.
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I am philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age. I misspoke and said I was not philosophically opposed.
