Bill Keller Quotes
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
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I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
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All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
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Nature knows best.
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I've been told I'm out of my mind since I was 11.
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If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
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'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'
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We want the whole list on the table, and completely, before the election, ... Anything else would be enormous election deception.
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I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.
