Paul Williams Quotes
Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.
Quotes to Explore
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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When I get the ball with my back to goal, I like to be in touching contact. I need to feel the guy. He will try to take the ball, and I will go past him.
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People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
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Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
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We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.
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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
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I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.
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When you look at the fittest, leanest populations like Japan and Scandinavia, they don't even go to the gym. The average person in Sydney takes 11,000 steps a day, and the average person in Houston does 4000. Guess who is going to be leaner, regardless of their diet?
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Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.
