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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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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He whom we anatomized‘whose words we gathered as pleasant flowersand thought on his wit and how neatly he described things’speaksto us, hatching marrow,broody all night over the bones of a deadman.
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Whoever has looked into the eyes of Jesus as he appears to us in his words knows that true happiness consists of service to this great One and his Spirit - and a life offerred to his work. Those who accept this mode of life, who know how to live it, become brothers and sisters.
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My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they're alone and it's not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you're going through and are going through it now.
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True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.
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Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
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Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.
