Donald Hall Quotes
I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan of 'Nightmare' loves Robert and you know so that's a challenge when you've got to step in a big man's shoes like that, so it's scary but it's also exciting.
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Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
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What is important is that we won. We badly needed to win to stay in group 1 to be in a position to take a shot at the world group.
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I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.
