Bill Mauldin Quotes
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
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Combining technology and fashion shouldn't be about PR gimmicks - they should genuinely enhance the experience of buying, owning and experiencing a luxury product.
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I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.
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I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.
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Lighten your palette his remark to Cézanne circa 1873, to encourage Cézanne to use bright colors, paint only with the three primary colours and their derivatives.
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The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.
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No matter how much leaves are fixed face to face they always look at each other aslant, whereas all fruits end up head-on however carelessly jumbled. A bunch of flowers is a house of colored cards. A heap of fruit is a hive of colored bees.
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Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventual disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens.
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The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.
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You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.
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Our psychology is … a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. It Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.
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Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
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If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going to win that award, or are you going to get into this graduate program, you're blocking the light, and the light is that guidance and love we get when we open up our hearts and are guided by our higher selves, or God, or the Buddha Lupe Buddha and the Virgin of Guadalupe fused together, as they are in the tattoo on Sandra's right arm, or whatever you believe in, or love.
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Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.
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I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.
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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
