William Feather Quotes
Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I've learned never say never.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.
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Presidents aren`t supposed to spit, at least not obviously.
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Magic exists if you allow it. If you open yourself up to it.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
