Paul Watson Quotes
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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I'm too disorganized.
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Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
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Sex is a discovery.
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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.
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I would say we are a friend in need and I am sure that the Greek people would very much welcome the choice of the British people to come and enjoy Greece, first of all, but also that would be a sign of support.
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If you think flirting is corny, think again. Flirting is teasing, and teasing builds anticipation.
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Ships are expendable; the whales are not.
