William Barclay Quotes
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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Four personalities are bound to clash.
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Ah Sin was his name.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
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For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
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Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
