William Feather Quotes
Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
Quotes to Explore
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.
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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
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My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
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If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
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To truly care about this country is to demonstrate that you care about her politics the same when you're winning as when you're losing.
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Woman's faith and woman's trust,Write the characters in dust.
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Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.
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...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.
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Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
