William Feather Quotes
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
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I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.
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Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.
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I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
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Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.
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As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.
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I have won every argument I ever had with myself.
