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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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
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Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him.
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True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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I'm always interested in using comics in different ways.
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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
