William Gaddis Quotes
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.
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The artist must be ecstatic about something.
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It wasn't my mother's laugh, the obscene laughter of a woman who knows. In Nella there was something chaste and yet vulgar, it was the laugh of an aging virgin that asailed me and pushed me to laugh, too, but in a forced way. I saw myself growing old, with that laugh of malicious innocence in my breast. I thought: I'll end up laughing like that, too.
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Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.
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What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?
