Bill Toomey Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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Religion wasn't imposed on me.
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I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.
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The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.
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I think that money has changed my sport.
