Ian Williams Quotes
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school.
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Before the election, I reported on a story about a counterintelligence officer from another service sending reports to the FBI saying that his sources in Russia were saying that Moscow tried for years to cultivate and co-opt Donald Trump. I'm not saying that happened. I'm saying I hope the FBI took a strong look, because it is really hard to believe that a president-elect would be so callous in how he approaches this issue and so dismissive of the seriousness of it.
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I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
