Bill Haslam Quotes
I don't know how you talk about the founding of America, and what became of the United States, without talking about religious doctrine.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
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I always work out. I do Pilates and yoga.
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When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.
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Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.
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America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.
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I don't know how you talk about the founding of America, and what became of the United States, without talking about religious doctrine.
