William Feather Quotes
Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.
Quotes to Explore
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
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People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.
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Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.
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I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.
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The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.
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We cannot have this porous border, where people come in and out; we don't know who they are.
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Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.
