Walter Jon Williams Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.
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We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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All I want to do for the rest of my life is be with Diana 24/7. We're creative people, and we love to work together.
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To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas - oh, you're on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It's about the project and not the medium on which it's delivered. It's the story you tell, period.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.
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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
