Walter Jon Williams Quotes
I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.
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I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.
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Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.
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When I travel, I have to have blotting sheets. It's so much better to remove the oil than to cover it up because then your skin just looks cakey.
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People are always talking about how bad the seventies were, but things in the popular culture have gotten much worse even since then. I grew up watching Laverne & Shirley, and Lenny and Squiggy never slept over. Now with shows like Friends or Married... with Children, sex is everywhere. I mean, can you imagine the minds that were raised on those shows?
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
