Fred Willard Quotes
When you get to a certain age, it's kind of the same thing. There's no new school to go to, no new teachers. There's some comfort in that.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.
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When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.
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I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.
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Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
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When you get to a certain age, it's kind of the same thing. There's no new school to go to, no new teachers. There's some comfort in that.
