Bill Huizenga Quotes
My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.
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I came from a very corporate environment, but my own style is quite approachable, warm, and very detail oriented.
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I know there are some actors who won't switch their accents off when they're on set and like to be called by their character's names. That works for them, and that's great.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.
