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 have, indeed, lived most of my life overseas, but I've returned repeatedly to work in film, special television productions, and the New York theater. There have also been tributes and similar occasions that have called me back to Hollywood. I've returned so often, I almost feel that I've never left.
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Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody makes a move, get out of focus, cuts loose, and I see why Jesus never wrote systematic theology. So you and I can give thanks that the locus of Christian thinking appears to be shifting from North America and northern Europe where people write rules and obey them, to places like Africa and Latin America where people still know how to dance.
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It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.
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Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.
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Ships are expendable; the whales are not.
