Walter Jon Williams Quotes
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
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I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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Through the power of his grace, God can turn around the most devastating sin or failure in our lives.
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
