William Barclay Quotes
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
Quotes to Explore
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
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Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?
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I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
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Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
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I think I was supposed to play jazz.
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
