R. M. Williams Quotes
Any manual skill gives its practitioner much personal pleasure, particularly when it is one that admits of constant improvement.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'
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Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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A lot of people don't want to deal with the effort needed to secure your bitcoins. That's why we started to build Gemini, which is a U.S.-based exchange with compliance - it's NASDAQ, E-Trade and DTC built into one.
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A further step is to observe the interplay between your thoughts and your physical sensations. How are particular thoughts registered in your body? (Do thoughts like “My father loves me” or “my girlfriend dumped me” produce different sensations?) Becoming aware of how your body organizes particular emotions or memories opens up the possibility of releasing sensations and impulses you once blocked in order to survive.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
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Any manual skill gives its practitioner much personal pleasure, particularly when it is one that admits of constant improvement.
