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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I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
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We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.
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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
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What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?
