William Gaddis Quotes
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
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Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are not policed but instead supported and loved and cared for. Where our families can feel safe and inspired and protected.
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There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
