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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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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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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I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
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I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are depriving themselves of intellectual stimulation in the workplace - and personal growth - by sticking to the stultifying, rigid system that I call corporatism.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.
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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.
