Walter Jon Williams Quotes
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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The Internet is a toilet. It is.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.
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In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.
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I'm impressionable, that's for sure.
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The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
