Dick Williams Quotes
Most of the things that happened to them we were up on, but we learned a few things too.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
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Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.
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When I was putting the 'Best of Hollywood' book together, I sat down and added up just the list of Westerns I've done, and it came to well over 200.
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Most of the things that happened to them we were up on, but we learned a few things too.
