William Ames Quotes
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Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
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I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.
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It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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People buy a ticket to see your show, so from the moment I get onstage, I can have no insecurities, because they're already there. You have to get people to listen. If they listen, everything's cool.
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Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
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Remnants of the foreclosure crisis linger everywhere.
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If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.
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I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.
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I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
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Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.
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What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.
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At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent to minority families, Hillary Clinton risked her own safety to seek out the truth, to comfort the afflicted, and to make a home for justice where there was none. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary.
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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
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...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
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The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all barks only for present use.
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"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.
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My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.
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The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
