William Billings Quotes
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.
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Impatience is a virtue.
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We have asked the government to start some discussions with us about how we can operate an unfiltered search engine in China, and failing that, we will have to shut it down, but - or do something else.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating.
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.
