William Boyd Quotes
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.
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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
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Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.
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Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets – perhaps about 30% of them are planet – builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!
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I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.
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Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.
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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
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Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
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The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.
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What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.
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We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.
