Paul Williams Quotes
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I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
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I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.
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I'm somewhat in my own cloud.
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We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.
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All art is a confession.
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It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?
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You lift my feet off the ground,You spin me around.You make me crazier, crazier.Feels like I'm fallin' and IAm lost in your eyes.You make me crazier, crazier, crazier.
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It really scared me to do what Mom did because I never did anything that she did. I promised her that I would never sing her songs, and I kept my promise. 'You sing them better than anybody. I don't want to be a second-rate example of you. I want to be a first-rate example of myself.'
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There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.
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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
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The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.
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Men seem to think that page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.
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I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
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I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.
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I like being a mother.
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I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
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You see the guys sign the big contract, you see everybody on TV, but you don't see all the work that goes into that. It's a grind. And a lot of people don't see that grind.
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I've seen lawyers who don't represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released.
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A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the system of physical science, even in those branches like astronomy that seem to approximate mathematical certainty. He cherished this belief, for it led to the consoling hope that humanity would inevitably make progress toward a state of happiness and improved character even as it has already done in its knowledge of the truth.
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The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.
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There were no allegations, insinuations, indications of concern
