Bill Williams Quotes
We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I have learned to be patient.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I do my best, and that's all I can do.
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When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
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It's kind of stupid that people think I'm just partying all the time.
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These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.
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Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.
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We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
