William Gaddis Quotes
If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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No one is India.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people.
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There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
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If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money
