Jayson Williams Quotes
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.
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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
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I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.
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The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.
