William Floyd Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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I consider myself a little weak.
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
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I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
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I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture.
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Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
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I've always thought of nuclear as something that's good for the environment. I worry about my polar bears.
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I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.
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When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.
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For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.
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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.
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A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. it will work if the trouble is some kind of general and diffuse irritability or tenseness which is preventing a tired baby relaxing into sleep. The burring sound of a fan or heater works excellently. So does the sound of a car engine.
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The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.
