Bill Keller Quotes
I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.
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I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition I've ever done in my entire life, and I haven't gotten the job.
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Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.
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How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.
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I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.
