William Feather Quotes
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
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I don't think we were anticipating that much concern from the community about the P.S. Jones school
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Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.
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Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.
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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
