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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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
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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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I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.
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Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.
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For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.
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Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!
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In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.
