Bill Moyers Quotes
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.
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I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.
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I say that what one loves is best: The midnight fastness of the heart.
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There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
