Roy H. Williams Quotes
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
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It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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Tone matters more than words.
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Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
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I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
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Now a few words of advice to boys, and especially to those of my own race, my heart goes out to them as they face life's struggles.
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There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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It’s a shame really because if a band or an artist doesn’t have a hit straight away the label will drop them and go and look for another act, so you don’t get bands developing in the same way as we did.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
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Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.
