Virginia Williams Quotes
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?
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Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
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I'm really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.
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I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.
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Together we are building a new Mexico.
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I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
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In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.
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Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that.
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At least in the United States, most economic resentment is not directed toward billionaires or high-roller financiers - not even corrupt ones. It's directed at the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise. It's directed at the husband of your wife's sister, because he earns 20 percent more than you do.
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The only one who can change the heart of man is the Lord. And that will make us want to make things fair for other people.
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I love Vivienne Westwood - she designs for womanly shapes.
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All my life I've prayed the Lord's Prayer, but I've never prayed, 'Give me this day my daily bread.' It is always, 'Give us this day our daily bread.' Bread and life are shared realities. They do not happen in isolation. Civilization is an unnatural act. We have to make it happen, you and I, together with all the other strangers.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.
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Ford is such an answered prayer and an absolute blessing.
