William Feather Quotes
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
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I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
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Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
