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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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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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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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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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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People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce.
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Most Americans cannot save more than $6,000 a year from depreciating real estate. That's all they can write off against their salary or business profits.
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The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.
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I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.
